BAGRAM AIR BASE, June 10: US-led troops on Tuesday killed four men armed with AK-47 rifles and rocket-propelled grenades who attacked a patrol near the Pakistan border, a US military spokesman said.

“The enemy force opened fire on the patrol which manoeuvred through the contact with no casualties,” Colonel Rodney Davis told reporters at Bagram Air Base.

The skirmish erupted near a US-led troop base near Shkin and lasted for three hours, he said. The US-led troops returned fire and reinforcements from Shkin fired illumination flares and high explosive rounds to back up the patrol.—AFP