October 5, 2015
By Reuters
...Residents said that, (click here) unlike the previous eight days, they had not heard gun battles and were able to leave their homes to buy food and take stock of the damage done.
By Reuters
...Residents said that, (click here) unlike the previous eight days, they had not heard gun battles and were able to leave their homes to buy food and take stock of the damage done.
Government
forces raised the national flag over the provincial governor's house for
the first time since losing control of much of the city when Taliban
fighters launched a multi-pronged assault.
Soldiers
were conducting house-to-house searches as they continued to push
Islamist insurgents out of areas that had witnessed fierce fighting.
"The centre of the city is normal," said Abdul Ghafoor, a Kunduz resident, but added it would still take time to recover.
"The city smells so bad with dead bodies still on the pavements and in the sewage. The local government must do something."...
Residents
said that, unlike the previous eight days, they had not heard gun
battles and were able to leave their homes to buy food and take stock of
the damage done.
Government
forces raised the national flag over the provincial governor's house for
the first time since losing control of much of the city when Taliban
fighters launched a multi-pronged assault.
Soldiers
were conducting house-to-house searches as they continued to push
Islamist insurgents out of areas that had witnessed fierce fighting.
"The centre of the city is normal," said Abdul Ghafoor, a Kunduz resident, but added it would still take time to recover.
"The city smells so bad with dead bodies still on the pavements and in the sewage. The local government must do something."
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