Four Afghan National Army Soldiers were lost their lives and 12 others wounded during their security missions. 

National defense ministry press office said to BNA, in the last 24 hours four ANA soldiers were martyred and 12 others were wounded in clashes with enemies and mine blasts in the outskirts of Kandahar, Maidan-Wardak and Helmand provinces. 

According to another report, the national army soldiers in mopping up operations which carried out in the Ashogi village of Zabul, Khanabad district of Kunduz and Gardiz city of Paktia, 2 Kalashnikovs, a Grenov gun, a set of heavy machine-guns, 2 sets of communication, 12 anti-vehicle mines, and other military equipments and two motorcycles of enemies were seized by these forces. 

Meanwhile, four different types of mines were placed for destructive and terrorist activities in the vicinities of Khanabad of Kunduz and Nadali district of Helmand were discovered and defused by national army forces.