The World - News from June 22, 1987
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The Soviet Union carried out bombing raids on an Afghan border town for two weeks and killed 300 people to retaliate for a Muslim guerrilla raid that killed 85 Soviet soldiers in Soviet territory, guerrilla sources said in Islamabad, Pakistan. The guerrillas attacked military targets late last month near Takha Bazar, 15 miles inside the Soviet republic of Turkmenistan, said a spokesman for Jamiat-i-Islami, one of the main rebel groups fighting Afghanistan’s Communist government. He said the Soviets retaliated with repeated raids on the Afghan city of Bala Marghab.
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