Two US special forces soldiers were shot and wounded on an intelligence-gathering mission in Afghanistan at about 3 a.m. (local time) yesterday.
"One was shot in the calf and the other in the upper
thigh," a US spokesman said.
The shootings took place in the province of Uruzgan, which runs from central to southern Afghanistan.
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The injured soldiers will be airlifted to Germany for further treatment later today.