AP: 2 NATO soldiers killed in Afghan bombing

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Posted on Tue, Oct. 31, 2006

2 NATO soldiers killed in Afghan bombing
JASON STRAZIUSO
Associated Press

KABUL, Afghanistan - A roadside bomb killed two NATO soldiers and wounded
two others on patrol in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, the alliance said.

The roadside bomb struck the soldiers' vehicle in the province of Nuristan,
NATO said. The two wounded soldiers were taken to a U.S. military facility
in Asadabad in neighboring Kunar province.

NATO did not release the nationalities of the soldiers, but U.S. troops are
the primary NATO component in eastern Afghanistan.

NATO troops on Monday fought insurgents in southern Afghanistan for six
hours in a firefight that left 55 militants and one NATO soldier dead.
Another 20 militants were wounded in the battle in Zabul province, NATO
said.

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1. Roadside bomb kills 3 NATO soldiers in Afghanistan

KABUL, Oct 31 (Reuters) - Three NATO soldiers were killed when their patrol ran into a roadside bomb in Afghanistan's eastern province of Nuristan on Tuesday, military officials said, as violence surged ahead of the first winter snowfalls.

A fourth soldier was wounded in the blast, a NATO spokesman said. The nationality of the soldiers was withheld, but U.S. troops form the bulk of NATO force deployed in the remote, mountainous province. A Taliban-led insurgency has intensified this year, surprising NATO generals who took over command of foreign forces in Afghanistan from the United States, with more 3,100 people killed in the past 10 months.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the blast in Nuristan, where loyalists of a militant leader and former prime minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar are also active.

In a separate incident, two NATO soldiers were wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up near the soldiers' convoy in Ghazni province to the southwest of Kabul, a spokesman for the organisation said.

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