Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force - Afghanistan
For Immediate Release
Release #047

KUNAR, Afghanistan (April 29, 2011) – Insurgents raided the home of a soldier from the Afghan National Army, beat and tied up two male relatives and murdered four female relatives in Barabat-Jaba village, Kunar province, April 25.

Reports from the area state that the women, a wife, mother, sister and 4-year-old daughter of the ANA soldier, were shot to death in their home by the insurgents who were looking for the soldier because they believed he was passing information to Coalition Forces.

Unable to locate the soldier, the insurgents killed the women in the house and tied up and beat the males.

The ANA Soldier has returned home from his duty-station in Kandahar after hearing about his murdered family.

The incident is still under investigation by the Afghan Border Police.