Two helicopters from the Defense Ministry were carrying the wounded to Pul-e-Kumri, but so far, they had taken 30 people out of the area.
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About 200 of the injured were taken to Pul-e-Kumri and Baglan by helicopter, bus and trucks, while some 70 people were treated in Nahrin.
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Abil said opposition forces had seized Pul-e-Kumri, a strategic city in Baghlan province that lies on the road between Mazar-e-Sharif and Kabul.
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Shahabuddin said the opposition alliance launched a massive counter offensive Sunday against Taliban troops hunkered down in bunkers some 25 kilometers ( 15 miles ) north of Pul-e-Kumri.
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Gen . Khalil, a military commander from a town in the area, Pul-e-Kumri, estimated that the final death toll would exceed 1, 000 people.
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A statement from the Swedish Committee, quoting a senior staffer in the organization, said all offices of international groups in Pul-i-Kumri have been closed and partially looted.
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Hemat, the Bakhtar chief, said Taliban troops were retreating from Mazar-e-Sharif toward Samangan province to the east and to Pul-e-Kumri in the southeast.
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MSF, also known as Doctors Without Borders, sent two medical teams on Tuesday, one from Pul-e-Kumri in Baghlan Province and another from Taloqan in neighboring Takhar province.
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Medecins Sans Frontieres, also known as Doctors Without Borders, sent two medical teams on Tuesday, one from nearby Pul-e-Kumri and another from Taloqan in neighboring Takhar province.
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Taliban jets pounded the northern Afghanistan city of Pul-e-Kumri on Sunday killing five people and wounding dozens more, said a spokesman for the anti-Taliban opposition that controls the area.
