Afghan official: Gunmen attacked army base, 100 casualties [View all]
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Source: Associated Press
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Gunmen wearing army uniforms stormed a military compound in the Balkh province, killing or wounding more than 100 army personnel, an Afghan official said Saturday.
Daulat Waziri, spokesman for the Afghanistan Ministry of Defense, said the attack a day earlier on a compound of the 209th Corps of the Afghan National Army left dozens of soldiers and other personnel dead or wounded.
Gunmen entered the compound with a military vehicle and began shooting at soldiers as they prayed in a mosque, he said.
Waziri said there were 10 attackers. Two carried out suicide attacks and eight other attackers were killed in the battle.
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It's 11 pm here and I drank a lot of beer while I watched the playoffs, so maybe I'm a bit out of it: Could someone tell me again why we still have troops there?
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