Suicide blast kills 3 NATO soldiers in Afghanistan

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Source: Reuters

Suicide blast kills 3 NATO soldiers in Afghanistan
Tue Aug 28, 2007 8:25AM EDT

KABUL (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed three NATO
soldiers and wounded six in eastern Afghanistan on
Tuesday, the alliance said, taking to nine the number
of Western troops killed in Afghanistan since the
weekend.

The soldiers were working on a project at a bridge
construction site when a bomber detonated explosives
attached to his body, NATO said in a statement.

It did not identify the victims. The attack happened
in a district of Paktia province and the casualties
were U.S. soldiers, a provincial official said.

A Taliban spokesman said the bomber was a member of
the Islamist group which is fighting to drive Western
troops out of the country and to topple President
Hamid Karzai's government.

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