Across Asia: Afghanistan

US soldier's body found

Military divers have found the body of one of two US soldiers who went missing last week as they tried to recover air-dropped supplies that fell into a river in western Afghanistan, NATO said yesterday.

The two paratroopers, from the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, disappeared in Badghis province, a remote area that borders Turkmenistan, on Nov 4. Local police had said the two had been swept away by the river as they tried to recover the supplies. The search for the second soldier is on.