A number of residents from Sayyid Abad District in Sarful Province say that local Taliban authorities destroyed several houses in Sayyid Abad Gariba District and forced people to leave. According to local residents, the Taliban asked about 250 families in this area to leave their homes. Several residents of Sayyid Abad District told Afghanistan International that on Saturday, the ninth of Scorpio, armed Taliban agents destroyed at least six houses in Sayyid Abad Gariba District on the Sarful-Jujan highway. According to local residents, the Taliban did not give people a chance to evacuate their belongings. According to reports, the residents of this area are ethnic Arabs. They claim to have lived in this area for more than 80 years. According to them, some people from the Pashtun village surrounding this area claimed ownership of about 250 dunams of land.