PUL ALAM: At least 14 Afghan soldiers were killed in a US air strike early Monday on an army checkpoint in a Taliban-infested province south of Kabul, officials said.
“At 6:00 am today, two US helicopters attacked a checkpoint in Baraki Barak district of Logar province,” district governor Mohammad Rahim Amin told newsmen. “The checkpoint caught fire… and 14 Afghan army soldiers were killed,” he added.
An American military official said that he was “aware of an incident involving US forces in Logar province this morning”. “This incident is under investigation,” he added.
Din Mohammad Darwesh, the Logar provincial governor’s spokesman, confirmed the strike and gave a similar death toll. Amin said that the targeted checkpoint was “not a suspicious area”.
“The Afghan flag was waving at the checkpoint in Baraki Barak when the Americans launched their attack,” he said.
