KABUL: Clashes between Taliban forces and Iran border guards on Sunday haveleft at least one dead on the Afghanistan side, an Afghan police officialsaid.
“We have one killed and one wounded; the cause of the clash is not clearyet,” the police spokesman of the southern Afghan province of Nimroze,Bahram Haqmal, told *Reuters*.
Maysam Barazandeh, the governor of the Iranian border area of Hirmand, wasquoted by the semi-official news agency *Fars* as saying the clashes hadstopped and there were no casualties.
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Iran’s *Tasnim *news agency said clashes broke out after Taliban forcestried to raise their flag “in an area which is not Afghan territory”.
