Sayed Sarwar Hussaini, spokesman for the police chief in Kunduz province, said today that four insurgents were wounded in the battle in the Khan Abad district.
Five local civilians, who participated in the fight against the insurgents, were also wounded, Hussaini added.
Elsewhere in Afghanistan, hundreds in the eastern province of Paktika protested on Saturday against the continued publishing of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammad by the French magazine Charlie Hebdo, said Mukhlis Afghan, the governor's spokesman.