Sunday, April 17, 2011

Five NATO soldiers killed after an insurgent attack in Afghanistan

Five NATO soldiers and four Afghan army have died in Afghanistan after a suicide attack east of the country, as reported by the ISAF said in a statement. It is the largest death toll of international forces in a single attack for several months and has been in the Gamberi base near Jalalabad, where there are about a hundred soldiers of the ISAF.

The statement did not give details about the location, nature of the attack or the nationalities of the deceased. Has stated only that "members of the international forces and Afghan army were gathered" at the time of the attack. Instead, a spokesman for the Afghan Defense Ministry, Mohamed Noman Atifi, has assured that it has attempted a suicide attack carried out by a person dressed in Afghan army uniform.

In addition to the five foreign soldiers in the attack, according to the spokesman, four soldiers have died also have other local and eight wounded. The attack has been claimed by Taliban forces. "A suicide bomber has detonated his explosives at a military base Qarghai district killing twelve members of foreign troops and 14 Afghan forces," said rebel spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid, who has raised the number of victims.

According to his version, the attacker, identified as Abdul gahani, have been working on this basis during the past year, and detonated the load he was carrying during a meeting between Afghan and international troops, a point which coincides with the information ISAF. For only 24 hours, the police chief in the troubled southern Afghan province of Kandahar, Muhammad Mujahid Khan, and two other members of this body of the security forces were killed in another suicide.

The actions of suicide bombers, roadside bombs along with are the most common tactics of the insurgents to harass the security forces in Afghanistan.

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