KABUL, Nov 20: Four suspected militants were killed and five others were arrested in a pre-dawn raid by US-led and Afghan forces in eastern Afghanistan
, officials said on Saturday.
The men were killed when they engaged coalition and Afghan forces in a gunfight in Barikaw district of eastern Nangarhar province, provincial official Faizanul Haq said.
"They were killed during a exchange of fire," Mr Haq who is a close aide to provincial governor Din Mohammad told AFP.
The fighting erupted when armed men attacked the troops from a house where the soldiers later arrested five other armed individuals, he added.
US military spokesman Major Mark McCann said he had no information on the incident.
