US-led troops today killed four gunmen armed with AK-47 rifles and rocket-propelled grenades who attacked a patrol near the Pakistani border, a US military spokesman said.
The skirmish erupted near a US-led troop base near Shkin along Afghanistan's southeast border at 1.30 a.m. after the troops were fired on and lasted for three hours, a US army spokesman said.
Coalition troops returned fire and reinforcements from Shkin fired illumination flares and high explosive rounds to back up the patrol.
AFP