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| Seven militants killed in southern Afghanistan |
| 2010-02-02 |
| [Dawn] Nato and Afghan forces killed seven militants in a gunbattle in the south of the country, the Afghan army said Monday, while a US soldier was killed by a bomb in a separate incident in the same area. The troops were on patrol in Helmand province on Sunday when they came under attack by militants and returned fire, said Gen. Sher Mohammad Zazi, the army commander for southern Afghanistan. He said no government or international troops were wounded and that they recovered the bodies of seven militants after the battle. Nato forces did not have any immediate comment on the incident. Separately, a bomb on Monday killed a US soldier serving with Nato in southern Afghanistan. The exact location of the improvised-explosive device (IED) attack was not disclosed but most of the south is troubled by a Taliban insurgency now at a record high since the 2001 US-led invasion ousted the militia's regime. "An ISAF service member from the United States was killed today in an IED strike in southern Afghanistan," ISAF said. |
| Posted by:Fred |