January 12, 2010 7:06 PM

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Missile kills 13 insurgents in southern Afghanistan

Thirteen insurgents were killed on Tuesday in southern Afghanistan by a missile that international forces fired from an unmanned aerial vehicle. NATO said coalition troops saw a group of insurgents near a safe house preparing ammunition in the Helmand province, when the international force launched one missile, killing the 13 militants. Yesterday, another missile fired from an unmanned aircraft killed three insurgents farther south in the Nad Ali district of Helmand.In Paris, meanwhile, the French military said a French army captain died on Tuesday of wounds suffered a day before during an insurgent ambush in the Alasay valley east of Kabul. Another French soldier was killed instantly in the same ambush.

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