|
||||||||
  |
||||||||
|
||||||||
|
||||||||
|
||||||||
|
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
U.S. troop shot by Pakistan border guard
BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan (CNN) -- A U.S. soldier -- grazed on his head by a bullet near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border -- was shot by a Pakistani border guard, U.S. military officials said Tuesday. The officials said the border guard is in Pakistani custody. Brig. Saulat Raza, a Pakistani armed forces spokesman, said "We are investigating the incident." Previously, Sunday's incident was described as an exchange of enemy gunfire. He was hit by an AK-47 automatic rifle. The soldier was transferred to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany for further examination and neurological testing, a statement said. His condition is listed as stable. The incident occurred near Shkin in eastern Afghanistan, a report by American Forces Press Service said. U.S. soldiers were observing Pakistani border guards destroy inert missiles found in the area. The border in the region is in dispute, but U.S. officials said the American soldiers were within Afghanistan. According to officials, one of the border guards approached the U.S. patrol and was asked by the American soldiers to return to his side of the boundary. As he began to walk back, the border guard turned, dropped to one knee and fired on the Americans, wounding the U.S. soldier. After the border guard ran into a nearby abandoned religious school, U.S. soldiers said they took more fire from the building and called in close-air support. An AV-8B Harrier jet dropped a 500-pound precision-guided bomb on the building, according to the report. American officials said U.S. and Pakistani troops continue to work closely together to patrol the border area between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
