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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A daylong battle in southern Afghanistan's poppy-growing belt Tuesday killed more than 60 Taliban fighters and one soldier from the U.S.-led coalition, military officials said.
Dozens of insurgents attacked a joint coalition-Afghan patrol near the town of Musa Qala in Helmand province with machine guns, mortars and rocket-propelled grenades, the U.S.-led coalition said in a statement. Taliban reinforcements flowed in from Musa Qala all day, it said.
The coalition returned fire and called in fighter aircraft, killing more than 60 of the Taliban fighters, the coalition said. One coalition soldier was killed and four wounded in the battle.
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