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attack on their outpost in Qala-e-Naw, the center of Badghis province, on Saturday, said Abdul Aziz Bek, the head of Badghis provincial council.
The incident happened near the Herat
...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns...
-Badghis highway, he said.
Badghis governor Hesamuddin Shams told TOLOnews that the soldiers were killed in a shooting by the security guards of a private construction company.
Shams said the guards attacked the soldiers after joining the Taliban.
He also confirmed that seven other soldiers are missing.