Afghanistan by a missile that international forces fired from an
unmanned aerial vehicle, NATO said.
NATO said coalition troops saw a group of insurgents near a safe house
preparing ammunition as well as insurgent mortar teams moving
equipment in the Naw Zad area of Helmand province. The international
force launched one missile, killing the 13 militants.
On Monday, another missile fired from an unmanned aircraft killed
three insurgents farther south in the Nad Ali district of Helmand,
NATO said.
In the south-central part of the country, a member of the Afghan
National Police was killed and two others were wounded in a suicide
attack Monday evening at a police station in Uruzgan province, police
chief Juma Gul Hamit said. The suicide bomber detonated his cache of
explosives near the gate of the police chief's office in Dihrawud
district.
Hamit said the attacker tried to enter the office where a meeting was
underway. Although wounded by police, the bomber detonated his
explosive vest, killing the one policeman and injuring the two others
who kept him from going inside.
In Paris, meanwhile, the French military said a French army captain
died Tuesday of wounds suffered a day before during an insurgent
ambush in the Alasay valley east of Kabul. Another French soldier was
killed instantly in the same ambush.
Both casualties were with a joint Afghan and French army patrol that
was attacked by small arms fire in a village market place.
France has some 3,500 troops with NATO in Afghanistan. It has lost 38
men in Afghanistan since 2001.
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