An anti-tank mine exploded in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing a man who was apparently trying to mine a road used by U.S. Special Forces troops searching for Taliban and al-Qaida militants, an Afghan official said. The man, whose identity was unknown, was trying to lay the mine on the road about seven kilometers (four miles) southeast of the Afghan city of Khost, near the Pakistani border, said Khost official Gulkhider. The mine might have exploded because the man was not familiar with the device and mishandled it, the official said.
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