NATO sez, 'Yeah, that wuz us...'
NATO helicopters from Afghanistan have carried out an "unprovoked" attack on a Pakistani border post, killing at least eight troops, the Pakistan military and local officials say.
In Kabul, a spokesman for NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said: "We are aware that an incident did take place. We are still in the process of gathering information."
Pakistani security and military officials in the Mohmand tribal region, which is near the Afghan border, said an army major was among the eight dead in the pre-dawn incident.
A military spokesman said: "ISAF/NATO helicopters carried out unprovoked and indiscriminate firing on a Pakistani checkpost in Mohmand agency last night (early on Saturday)."
The border post was in the Baizai district of the rugged tribal terrain.
"The firing left seven soldiers and one major dead," a local intelligence official said.
A paramilitary and another security official confirmed the casualties. |