Saturday, April 13, 2013
Kabul (BNA) The sources of national defense ministry confirmed that 13 Afghan National Army Soldiers were martyred in attack of armed insurgents and their foreign terrorists in Kunar province.
General Mohammad Zahir Azimi spokesman of national defense ministry said BNA, a group of armed insurgents with a number of foreign terrorists attributed to Al-qaeda network using heavy and light weapons launched attack from several directions on national army post in the relevant areas of Nari district as a result of which 13 national army soldiers were martyred.
With arriving security forces, the insurgents sustained heavy casualties and fled.
It is said a source of national defense ministry called the casualty of the incident three and said that six other soldiers have been wounded in the incident.
T. Suraya-Yarzada
