This just in from the Associated Press:
Reports of civilian deaths in from the fighting in Uruzgan were coming from various quarters.
One wounded man, Janu Akha, at the main Uruzgan hospital told The Associated Press that 18 members of his family had been killed.
Mullah Ahmidullah Khan, the head of Uruzgan’s provincial council, estimated the clashes in Chora killed 60 civilians, 70 suspected Taliban militants and 16 Afghan police.
“I have talked to President Karzai and asked him to send helicopters to ferry the wounded to Kabul,” he said.
An official close to the governor who asked not to be identified when talking about preliminary estimates, said 70 to 75 civilians were killed or wounded, while more than 100 Taliban and more than 35 police were killed.
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[...] The Taliban initiated the battle with a suicide bombing in Tarin Kowt that killed one Dutch soldier and around 10 Afghans, including several children. The fighting in Chura claimed one Dutch soldier and an undetermined number of civilians, including some who were executed by the Taliban, according to Van Der Voet. He said that the Afghan police had suffered “heavy casualties” but that exact numbers were not yet unavailable. Dutch officials reported as many as 100 Taliban killed. [...]