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KUNDUZ， Afghanistan， June 26 (Xinhua) -- About 16 Taliban militants were killed in a U.S. drone attack in Afghanistan's northern province of Kunduz overnight， a military statement said on Sunday.


""A senior Taliban leader named Mullah Jannat Gul along with 15 of his men were killed after a pilotless plane of international forces struck two vehicles running along a road in Quash Tipa， Chahar Dara district Saturday night，"" said the statement issued by the Afghan army's Division 20 Pamir stationed in the region.


The insurgents tried to relocate but the struck came after a tip-off confirmed the movement of the insurgents in the restive district， the statement noted.


In an unrelated incident， Abdul Samad， a Taliban intelligence agent and insurgents' suicide attack facilitator， was captured in an Afghan army security checkpoint in Ghorband district of eastern Parwan province on Saturday， an army source told Xinhua earlier.


The Afghan security forces have beefed up security operations and NATO-led forces increased drone attacks against militants since early April after Taliban militants started their so-called annual spring offensive and step up attacks across the country.


The Taliban militants group has yet to make comments.

" Chinese homebuyers look at housing models of a residential property project during a real estate fair in Huaian Authentic C.C. Sabathia Jersey , East China's Jiangsu Province, in September 2016. Photo: IC

China's central bank governor said Thursday that he had noticed the recent rapid increase in housing prices in some Chinese cities, and said the central government attached great importance to the matter and will actively take measures to ensure the sound development of the housing sector.


Experts said the governor's words may signal a gradual policy shift that would curb credit risks in the property sector and prevent a bubble from forming.


Zhou Xiaochuan, governor of the People's Bank of China, made the remarks at a meeting of G20 central bank governors and finance ministers in Washington, US, on Thursday, according to a statement released by the central bank on its official website on Saturday.


In an effort to prevent housing prices from rising too quickly, about 20 Chinese cities - including Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen in South China's Guangdong Province, Suzhou in East China's Jiangsu Province, Chengdu in Southwest China's Sichuan Province and Wuhan in Central China's Hubei Province - issued new policies restricting property purchases and mortgage down payments during China's week-long National Day holidays, which ended Friday.