KABUL, Afghanistan, July 25 (UPI) -- Afghanistan provincial government officials confirm one of two U.S. servicemen abducted Friday has been killed.
Den Mohammad Darwish, the spokesman for the governor of Logar province, said he learned from locals the service member was killed, CNN reported Sunday.
A Taliban spokesman said they wanted to take both men alive, but a firefight broke out, killing one of the servicemen. The other is alive but wounded and is being held in a safe location, he said.
CNN reported three U.S. military officials said the two service members are from the Navy.
The two men initially went missing after leaving their compound in Kabul in a non-military vehicle. Adm. Mike Mullen called it an "unusual circumstance."
Coalition forces have mounted a ground and air search for the two missing soldiers but did not release information about their identities.
"Every available asset is being brought to bear" to find them, Lt. Col. Joseph T. Breasseale, a NATO spokesman in Kabul, said.
