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US-led air raid kills 50 Taliban: Afghan official More than 50 Taliban guerrillas were killed in a U.S.-led air strike on a mosque in Afghanistan's southern province of Helmand on Monday, 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 U.S.-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." He did not have further details. U.S.-led forces could not be contacted immediately for comment and Akhundzada said a joint ground and air operation involving U.S.-led and Afghan forces was going on in the district to hunt Taliban insurgents. The news of the bombardment followed the launch of an ongoing operation by U.S.-led troops against Taliban fighters in several parts of the south over the past two weeks. Some 300 people -- most of them militants, but also civilians -- dozens of Afghan security forces and four foreign soldiers have been killed in the battles in a region that has been the focus of an insurgency since U.S.-backed forces ousted the Taliban in late 2001. Separately, five Canadian soldiers were wounded in a gunbattle on Monday after their convoy was ambushed by Taliban guerrillas in neighboring Kandahar province, a spokesman for the Canadian military said. He suspected five assailants were killed in the encounter and said four of the wounded soldiers were in a stable condition. The clash happened south of Kandahar, in a village from where 3,000 people have already fled because of fear of fighting. ---------------------------------------------------
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