ASADABAD, Afghanistan , June 25 (Saba) - Two U.S. Marines were killed and another wounded in an attack in eastern Afghanistan, the military said Friday.

The Marines were killed in Kunar province, which borders Pakistan, on Thursday evening, said military spokeswoman Master Sergeant Cindy Beam.

She said the wounded Marine was hurt by gunfire, but she said she did not know how the two were killed.

The attack happened in a mountainous district called Naray close to the border with Pakistan, residents there said. They said they saw the bodies of the two Marines and they appeared to have been shot with AK-47 assaul trifles.

Mohammad Zaman Malang, a top military commander in Kunar's capital Asadabad, said the Marines came under fire as they were moving through a valley.

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