Afghan Ministry Of Defense (MoD) said on Tuesday the Taliban’s shadow deputy governor for Uruzgan, Abdullah, was killed during Afghan security forces operations in the province on Monday.

Mohammad Radmanish, the ministry’s deputy spokesman, said Abdullah was killed in Khas Uruzgan district of Uruzgan province.

Radmanish said that in the past 24 hours, 45 insurgents, including Abdullah, were killed in different parts of the country.

According to Radmanish, 13 insurgents were killed in Shah Wali Kot district of Kandahar, six insurgents including Abdullah were killed in Khas Uruzgan, six others were killed in Nad Ali district of Helmand province, three insurgents were killed while planting mines in Gereshk district of Helmand province, six insurgents were killed in Zurmat district of Paktia, four insurgents were killed in Bala Block district of Farah, four were killed in Kohistan district of Faryab and three were killed in Shahjoy district of Zabul province.

During the operations 37 other insurgents were wounded, Radmanish said adding that 25 more were arrested.

No details were given about casualties among security forces.  

Taliban has not yet commented about the operations.