2 Italian military personnel missing in western Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Two Italian military personnel on a weekend patrol have disappeared in western Afghanistan, and police said Sunday they were searching for the pair and their two Afghan staff.
In northeastern Afghanistan, meanwhile, NATO helicopters fired on a group of suspected insurgents in response to a rocket attack. Four Afghans died and 12 were wounded, the alliance said, and officials were investigating whether the dead and wounded were Afghan police or civilians targeted mistakenly.
An official from the Italian embassy in Kabul said the two missing Italians last spoke with officials at their base on Saturday night during “routine contact.” The Italian military in Herat was trying to reach them again.
The two Italians, with their Afghan driver and translator, drove through a police checkpoint in the Shindand district of Herat province on Saturday, and they have not had any contact with anyone since, said Gen. Ali Khan Hassanzada, chief of police criminal investigations in western Afghanistan.
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