The Taliban after suffering casualties fled the area, the official added.
Taliban militants, however, without commenting on the situation in Sangin district, claimed that the insurgent group attacked security checkpoints in Shana Gombad locality in the outskirt of Helmand`s provincial capital Laskhkar Gah late Friday night killing over two dozen soldiers.
Notorious for growing poppy and insurgency, Helmand with Lashkar Gah as its capital 555 km south of Kabul has been regarded as Taliban hotbed in southern Afghanistan.
Taliban militants have been fighting government forces in several districts of the restive Helmand province over the past couple of years.
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