Afghan roadside bomb kills coalition soldier

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Afghan roadside bomb kills coalition soldier
By Fisnik Abrashi - The Associated Press
Posted : Monday Jan 7, 2008 17:21:01 EST

KABUL, Afghanistan — A roadside bomb killed a soldier from the U.S.-led coalition in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, and a suicide bomber on a motorcycle attacked a border police patrol in the south, killing a policeman, officials said.

Clashes and another roadside bomb left nine people dead elsewhere.

In the eastern blast, two other U.S.-led coalition soldiers were wounded when the roadside bomb hit their vehicle in Kot district of Nangarhar province, the coalition said in a statement.

The troops were responding to a call from the local police who had discovered another explosive device nearby, when the second bomb exploded, the statement said.

The nationality of the dead and the wounded soldiers were not released. The majority of the troops in that area are American.


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