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| More Than 25 Wounded in Afghan Firefight |
KABUL, Nov. 6, 2009
Last Updated 3:12 p.m. ET
On Friday a NATO spokesman said more than two dozen members of NATO and Afghan security forces were wounded in western Afghanistan, near where coalition forces were searching for two missing U.S. paratroopers.
NATO forces headquarters in Afghanistan said the two paratroopers from the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, went missing on Wednesday after a routine resupply mission.
NATO said an exhaustive search and rescue operation is continuing, and that it is unlikely the two were taken captive. Local police say they were swept away by a river.
"We continue exhaustive search and rescue operations to locate our missing service members," spokeswoman Navy Capt. Jane Campbell said in the statement. "We are doing everything we can to find them."
Their families have been notified, and no further information will be released while the rescue operation continues and the incident is being investigated, the statement said.
On Friday a NATO spokesman said more than two dozen members of NATO and Afghan security forces were wounded in western Afghanistan, near where coalition forces were searching for two missing U.S. paratroopers.
NATO forces headquarters in Afghanistan said the two paratroopers from the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, went missing on Wednesday after a routine resupply mission.
NATO said an exhaustive search and rescue operation is continuing, and that it is unlikely the two were taken captive. Local police say they were swept away by a river.
"We continue exhaustive search and rescue operations to locate our missing service members," spokeswoman Navy Capt. Jane Campbell said in the statement. "We are doing everything we can to find them."
Their families have been notified, and no further information will be released while the rescue operation continues and the incident is being investigated, the statement said.
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