US-led air raid kills 50 Taliban- Afghan official

Kabul, May 29: More than 50 Taliban guerrillas were killed in a US-led air strike on a mosque in Afghanistan's southern province of Helmand today, a provincial official said.

Several ''Taliban leaders'' were among those killed in the pre-dawn attack in Kajaki district of province, Amir Mohammad Akhundzada, deputy provincial governor said. Spokesmen for the US-led forces in Afghanistan could not be contacted immediately for comment.

''The Taliban were meeting in a mosque when the bombardment took place,'' Akhundzada told Reuters by phone from Helmand. ''More than 50 of them have been killed.''

Reuters