Six Taliban militants including two senior Taliban officials were killed in an airstrike in Maidan Wardak Province of Afghanistan on April 9, reports Bakhtar News Agency. A security source in Maidan Wardak, said, Mullah Hekmatullah Sabawoon ‘shadow governor’ of Taliban for Jaghto District and Mullah Sayed Jan Tahir, ‘deputy intelligence chief’ of this group and four other Taliban militants were killed in an airstrike last night [April 9]. The Taliban were preparing for new terror attacks in Maidan-Wardak which were targeted by security troops, the source added. The Taliban have not yet commented in this regard.