KABUL - US-led troops and aircraft on Friday attacked a group of militants preparing to launch a rocket attack in eastern Afghanistan and killed up to seven rebels, the military said.The attack happened in eastern Paktika province’s Bermel district, the coalition forces said in a statement. “Coalition forces spotted a group setting up rockets and engaged the group with indirect fire ... Coalition aircraft dropped two munitions on the site and then another one on five personnel moving into a wadi (valley),” it said. “A ground patrol moved to the site and confirmed that two were killed and another five are suspected dead,” the statement said.
| "We counted a bunch of body parts lying in the field of fire. Forensics is trying to assemble them right now." |