A senior figure of a breakaway Taliban faction has been killed in battle between rival insurgent groups in southeastern Afghanistan, an Afghan police official said on Thursday.
Mullah Mansoor Dadullah was lured into a trap and killed by members of the main Taliban group in the Khak-e-Afghan district of southeastern Zabul province, the provincial deputy police chief Gulam Jelani Farahi said.
Dadullah who acted as a deputy to the splinter faction’s leader Mullah Mohammad Rasool was killed late Wednesday, he said.
Farahi’s claim couldn’t be independently confirmed and the breakaway faction did not report it. The area of inter-Taliban fighting is inaccessible to reporters.