A roadside bomb along a busy Kabul road killed two Afghans on Tuesday as fighting in the eastern provinces left a US-led coalition soldier and seven suspected Taliban dead, officials said. The bomb in Kabul killed a man and a woman riding in taxi, and wounded four others, said Faiz Ahmad Hotaq, a police official. In the eastern Kunar province, a coalition soldier, whose nationality was not disclosed, was killed on Monday in firefight with militants, a coalition statement said. Seven militants were also killed in Paktika province in clashes with coalition soldiers, it said. One coalition soldier was slightly wounded.
The US military said on Tuesday that two American engineer soldiers were seriously wounded in a roadside bomb attack in eastern Khost province. The two were on their way to a road project Sunday between the towns of Khost and Gardez when they were attacked, the military said. Their injuries were serious but not life threatening.
President Hamid Karzai, meanwhile, condemned the fatal shooting of an Afghan doctor and a driver for the international Christian relief and development organisation World Vision on Sunday after they delivered medicines to the town of Charsada in Ghor province. Karzai said in a statement that the two were killed “at the instructions of foreigners,” but did not elaborate.