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| Two Italian soldiers, five Afghans killed in spate of violence |
| 2006-05-05 |
| Two Italian soldiers were killed in a bomb blast in Kabul while five Afghans, including a tribal chief, died in the restive south in the latest violence blamed on Taliban rebels, officials said. The Afghan army Friday also said it had ambushed and killed four fighters from the Taliban movement, which has been waging an insurgency since they were removed from government in late 2001 by a US-led invasion. An Italian military convoy with the NATO-led peacekeeping force in Afghanistan was struck by a bomb while on patrol in the southeast of the city, a spokesman for the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said. "Four were injured and two died," Staff Sergeant Brian Lamar said. An Italian military spokesman in the Afghan capital said he believed the two were the first Italian troops to die in hostile action in Afghanistan. Italy has nearly 2,000 troops with ISAF, which came under NATO command in 2003. ISAF troops have sustained scores of casualties, including 25 soldiers killed over the past nine months. Rest at link. |
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