A German soldier was killed and another wounded in an attack by insurgents in northern Afghanistan, the German army said.
German special forces had been supporting an Afghan operation near the northern city of Baghlan when insurgents opened fire on the Afghan and NATO International Security Assistance Force troops, according to an army statement posted on its Internet site today.
"In the subsequent battle damage assessment the Afghan and ISAF forces again came under fire.
"A German soldier was killed and a German soldier wounded," it said.
It added that no information was available about losses among the Afghan forces but said "presumably" several insurgents had been killed.
No civilians were hurt according to latest information, it said.
Germany now has the third-biggest foreign troop deployment in Afghanistan after the United States and Britain, but has drawn down numbers from more than 5,000 to 4,200 now.
