(CNN) -- Thirteen Afghan National Army soldiers were shot and killed and one was injured Friday in the Naray district of eastern Kunar Province in Afghanistan, along the Pakistani border, a local official told CNN.
They were ambushed around 5 a.m. local time, the official said.The Taliban sent an e-mail to media outlets, including CNN, taking responsibility for the attack.CNN's Samira Said contributed to this report./* push in config for this share instance */cnn_shareconfig.push({"id" : "cnn_sharebar2","url" : "http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/12/world/asia/afghanistan-soldiers-killed/index.html","title" : "13 Afghan soldiers killed in ambush, official says"});
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