ISAF Joint Command - Afghanistan
2010-08-CA-216
For Immediate Release
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 KABUL, Afghanistan (Aug. 18) - Four International Security Assistance Force servicemembers were wounded by a grenade in eastern Afghanistan Tuesday.

 ISAF and Afghan National Army forces were conducting a partnered patrol in the Sayyidabad district, Wardak province, when the grenade was thrown from a mosque. ISAF servicemembers did not return fire.

ANA soldiers participating in the joint patrol took the lead and searched the mosque and surrounding area for insurgents, however no insurgents were found at the site.

The ISAF servicemembers did not enter the mosque and the wounded were taken to an ISAF facility for treatment.