KABUL, Afghanistan - Insurgents fired two rockets at an
American base in a troubled border zone of
Afghanistan, wounding four U.S. soldiers, the military said Saturday.
The military also said that the body of a woman had been found
in a house in the same southeastern province, after an American
warplane attacked it during a raid on militants Thursday night.
The rockets were fired at Camp Salerno, the military's main base
in Khost province, 90 miles south of the capital Kabul on Friday
afternoon, military spokesman Lt. Col. Tucker Mansager said.
"The first rocket landed near a group of soldiers, injuring
four with shrapnel wounds. The second rocket caused no damage or
injuries," Mansager said.
One soldier was treated and released. The others were still
being treated Saturday at Camp Salerno.
The base regularly comes under rocket fire from the mountainous
border region to the south, where U.S. forces late Thursday called
in airpower to end a gunfight that left three suspected militants
dead.
Afghan officials and villagers in the Tani district, where the
Americans say they detained another 23 suspects in a series of
nighttime raids, said a woman also died when a helicopter strafed a
house.
Mansager confirmed that the body of a woman had been found in
the building.
He it was unclear if she was a civilian rather than a militant,
and that the military was still investigating.
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