KABUL - A soldier with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) was killed Sunday while escorting a convoy in southern Afghanistan, the force said in a statement. The soldier died from wounds suffered when the convoy was hit by a bomb, which sparked a firefight with militants, an ISAF spokeswoman told AFP.“There was an IED, then there a firefight. He was injured and later died from his wounds. It was not known if he sustained the wounds from the IED or the gunshots,” the spokeswoman said.
Neither the soldierÂ’s nationality nor the location of the incident was disclosed. His death brings to 136 the number of international troops killed in Afghanistan this year, according to an AFP count.