Breaking News: 2 Soldiers Killed An Afghan Ambush!
Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2003 11:12 am
BAGRAM, Afghanistan — Two U.S. special forces soldiers were killed and another was wounded Saturday in an ambush in southern Afghanistan, the U.S. military said.
The soldiers were on a reconnaissance patrol in Helmand province when they were attacked, said a statement from the headquarters of the U.S. forces in Afghanistan.
Three Afghan soldiers also were wounded in the incident, said an intelligence chief in southern Afghanistan.
The soldiers were inspecting a school and hospital being built with American funding, said Dad Mohammed Khan, the intelligence chief of Helmand.
"Two U.S. Special Forces were killed and one wounded when their four vehicle-mounted reconnaissance patrol was ambushed in the vicinity of Geresk," the U.S. military said in a statement from a U.S.-run military base north of the capital, Kabul.
It did not immediately identify the victims.
Geresk is about 70 miles west of Kandahar.
Four people riding on two motorcycles ambushed the U.S. vehicles and escaped, Khan said, identifying the assailants as fighters of the former Taliban regime ousted by a U.S.-led coalition in late 2001.
Two days earlier, unidentified gunmen shot to death a water engineer working for the International Committee of the Red Cross. Ricardo Munguia, 39, was killed when his car was intercepted on a dirt road while he was returning from Tarin Kot, in neighboring Uruzgan province, to the southern city of Kandahar.
Munguia was a citizen of both Switzerland and El Salvador. He was the first foreign aid worker killed since the Taliban was expelled.
The soldiers were on a reconnaissance patrol in Helmand province when they were attacked, said a statement from the headquarters of the U.S. forces in Afghanistan.
Three Afghan soldiers also were wounded in the incident, said an intelligence chief in southern Afghanistan.
The soldiers were inspecting a school and hospital being built with American funding, said Dad Mohammed Khan, the intelligence chief of Helmand.
"Two U.S. Special Forces were killed and one wounded when their four vehicle-mounted reconnaissance patrol was ambushed in the vicinity of Geresk," the U.S. military said in a statement from a U.S.-run military base north of the capital, Kabul.
It did not immediately identify the victims.
Geresk is about 70 miles west of Kandahar.
Four people riding on two motorcycles ambushed the U.S. vehicles and escaped, Khan said, identifying the assailants as fighters of the former Taliban regime ousted by a U.S.-led coalition in late 2001.
Two days earlier, unidentified gunmen shot to death a water engineer working for the International Committee of the Red Cross. Ricardo Munguia, 39, was killed when his car was intercepted on a dirt road while he was returning from Tarin Kot, in neighboring Uruzgan province, to the southern city of Kandahar.
Munguia was a citizen of both Switzerland and El Salvador. He was the first foreign aid worker killed since the Taliban was expelled.
