Thirteen insurgents were killed today in southern Afghanistan by a missile that international forces fired from an unmanned aerial vehicle, Nato said.
Nato said coalition troops saw a group of insurgents, near a safe house, preparing ammunition, as well as insurgent mortar teams moving equipment in the Naw Zad area of Helmand province. The international force launched one missile, killing the 13 militants.
Yesterday, another missile fired from an unmanned aircraft killed three insurgents farther south in the Nad Ali district of Helmand, Nato said.
In the south-central part of the country, a member of the Afghan National Police was killed and two others were wounded in a suicide attack on Monday evening at a police station in Uruzgan province, police chief Juma Gul Hamit said. The suicide bomber detonated his cache of explosives near the gate of the police chief's office in Dihrawud district.
Hamit said the attacker tried to enter the office where a meeting was under way. Although wounded by police, the bomber detonated his explosive vest, killing the one policeman and injuring the two others who kept him from going inside.
In Paris, meanwhile, the French military said a French army captain died today of wounds suffered a day before during an insurgent ambush in the Alasay valley east of Kabul.
Another French soldier was killed instantly in the same ambush.
