Скачать или смотреть Hospital scenes, governor on intense fighting

(15 Apr 2006) SHOTLIST
1. Wide of wounded people inside hospital
2. Various of wounded people
3. SOUNDBITE (Pashtu) Zahir Shah, Injured Civilian:
"During the heavy fighting, I was standing in front of my house and people said to hide. Meantime, I got a bullet in my abdomen."
4. Wide of exterior of Mirwais Hospital
5. Wide of Governor of Kandahar Asadullah Khalid talking to journalists
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Asadullah Khalid, Governor of Kandahar:
"41 people were killed in this fighting and a lot (of people) were wounded. Some of the dead bodies were left in the area."
7. Wide of relatives standing over dead bodies
8. Various of relative sitting next to dead body
STORYLINE
Afghan security forces backed by US-led coalition helicopters attacked a suspected Taliban hideout in southern Afghanistan, sparking an intense gun battle that left 41 rebels and six police dead, a provincial governor said on Saturday.
Nine police and several militants were also wounded in Friday''s fighting in Sangisar, a town 40 kilometres (25 miles) southwest of Kandahar, according to governor Asadullah Khalid.
He added that Afghan forces had only collected 11 bodies out of the 41 dead
fighters, but did not elaborate on why the other bodies weren''t retrieved.
Khalid said although major fighting in the area had ended and the situation was under control, a search operation was still ongoing to capture some Taliban who had fled to a nearby village.
Kandahar used to be the stronghold of the Taliban until late 2001 when their government was ousted as a result of US-led attacks.
Since then, Taliban have been targeting coalition and Afghan forces and stepped up attacks over the past year, threatening the country''s
development and progress toward democracy.
Fighting escalated in recent weeks as spring weather has melted snow on mountains passes used by militants.
On Friday, a roadside bomb killed three Afghan soldiers in eastern Khost province and a suicide car bombing wounded three British troops in the southern province of Helmand.

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