Death toll rises to 50 in Afghanistan's Kandahar airport siege: officials

Kandahar: The death toll from a 27-hour Taliban siege of Kandahar airport has jumped to 50, the Afghan defence ministry said on Thursday, after a conference in Pakistan shored up international support for reviving peace talks.

"Fifty of our innocent countrymen, including 10 soldiers, two policemen and 38 civilians, were martyred in the attack," the ministry said in a statement, adding that 37 others were wounded.