Premature detonation syndrome claims another three lives.

Via Global Times:

Twenty-three militants have been killed in different provinces within the last 24 hours, said the Afghan Interior Ministry on Monday morning.

“A series of cleanup operations in Nangarhar, Kandahar, Zabul and Helmand provinces claimed the lives of 20 armed Taliban. Two Taliban wounded and four other armed Taliban were arrested,” the ministry said in a press release providing daily operational updates.

In addition, three Taliban members, including a local leader named Qari Dad Mohammad, were killed early Monday morning when an IED they were placing along a road in Langari area of the Kunduz city, the provincial capital of northern Kunduz province, went off prematurely, a police spokesman Sayed Sarwar Husainni told Xinhua earlier Monday.