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| Afghanistan |
| Roadside bomb kills 2 Afghan soldiers |
| 2008-11-02 |
| Two army soldiers have been killed in a roadside attack in southern Afghanistan, while 25 Taliban were killed elsewhere in the country. The two Afghan soldiers killed and two others were wounded when their vehicle was blown up by a roadside bomb blast in the Yakhchal area of Greshk district in southern Helmand province on Friday, the Afghan Defense Ministry said in a statement on Saturday. Also on Friday, in separate operations, Afghan and coalition forces killed 19 militants in Kunar and Khost provinces. Seven militants killed in the Dara Noor district of the Kunar province, when coalition forces clashed with a group of militants, a coalition statement said, adding that the operation targeted an al-Qaeda leader, who was "believed to be in contact with other militants in the region, coordinating attacks against coalition forces and innocent civilians." The joint forces killed 12 other militants and arrested three more in two separate clashes in Nadar Shah Kot district on Friday, the statement said. Six other militants killed and nine others wounded in fight with Afghan army forces in Nad Ali district of southern Helmand province on Thursday, a separate Afghan Defense Ministry statement said on Saturday. Afghanistan was hit by an unprecedented wave of violence this year, with highest record insurgent attacks. |
| Posted by:Fred |