Kabul - Six foreign soldiers were killed and five were
wounded in separate incidents in Afghanistan while 10 Afghan
security guards were killed when militants attacked their convoy in
the southern region, officials said Friday.
Three soldiers, serving under International Security Assistance
Force (ISAF) were killed and two others were wounded while on
operation in southern Afghanistan, ISAF said in a statement.
The soldiers were killed and wounded in southern Afghanistan, the
statement said, but did not identify the nationalities of the
soldiers, nor did it give an location of the incident or the type of
the operation.
The majority of the troops stationed in southern Afghanistan, are
British, US, Canadian, and Dutch soldiers.
In another incident, 10 Afghan security guards and at least one
Taliban fighter were killed when the Taliban attacked a convoy in
Afghanistan while three foreign soldiers were killed and three were
wounded in road accidents, officials said Friday.
Dozens of Taliban militants attacked a convoy that was supplying
foreign forces in southern Afghanistan Thursday night, killing 10 of
the convoy's guards, the head of the convoy's security said.
The convoy was being escorted by about 80 guards when it came
under attack in Zabul province on the highway between Kabul and
Kandahar, Mohammad Saleem of the private Afghan security company
said.
'The militants opened fire from both sides of the road, and during
the hours-long firefight, 10 of our security guards were killed,'
Saleem said, adding that the guards also inflicted casualties on the
Taliban.
He said he could not give any details of the Taliban deaths but
said a body of a Taliban fighter was left behind on the battlefield
but the militants were able to remove the rest of their dead and
wounded when they retreated.
In the western province of Herat, a vehicle rollover killed two
US-led coalition soldiers and wounded two others Friday in the Kajaki
district, the US military said in a statement.
Another foreign soldier, serving in the NATO-ISAF banner was
killed and another was wounded Thursday in another road accident in
the Shakardara district of Kabul province, the ISAF said in a
statement.
Both soldiers were taken by helicopter to an ISAF medical facility
and one died there of his injuries, the statement said.
The statements did not disclose the nationalities of the victims
and said the accidents were under investigation.
Meanwhile, US-led coalition troops killed a militant and arrested
11 people in the eastern province of Nangarhar, the coalition said in
a statement Friday.
The fighter was killed when he tried to attack coalition and
Afghan troops, according to the statement. The prisoners were being
questioned, it added.
More than 3,000 people, most of them insurgents, but including
hundreds of Afghan and international forces, have been killed in the
violence in Afghanistan this year after Taliban-led fighters stepped
up their attacks in the country.
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