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| NATO soldier, 6 militants killed in Afghanistan violence |
| 2007-09-26 |
| Afghan and US-led coalition forces killed six militants allegedly involved in attacks against the troops, while a Canadian soldier in the south was killed as authorities moved to quell a recent spike in insurgency-related violence, officials said on Tuesday. The Canadian soldier was killed and four others were wounded while on patrol Monday in southern Afghanistan, the alliance said in a statement. It did not give the exact location of the incident. In Kandahar province, a joint Afghan and coalition operation in Zhari district on Monday targeted militants suspected of planting roadside bombs and launching rocket attacks against NATO and Afghan forces, leaving six suspected insurgents dead, the Defence Ministry said in a statement. In central Wardak province, insurgents attacked Afghan army troops, killing a soldier and wounding five others, the ministry added. Suicide attacker: Elsewhere, a suicide bomber blew himself up next to the convoy of a border security commander on Tuesday in southern Afghanistan, leaving five policemen dead, the commander said. The attacker was wearing an explosive vest and riding a motorcycle when he struck the border security convoy in Spin Boldak district in Kandahar province near the Pakistan border, said district border security commander Abdul Raziq Khan, who was not hurt. Three other police and a civilian were wounded. A surge in insurgency-related violence has left more than 4,400 people dead, most of them militants, according to an Associated Press tally of figures from Afghan and Western officials. Bomb maker arrested: In northern Takhar province, police arrested a bomb manufacturer and five other men with suspected links to the Taliban and Al Qaeda after the bomb maker wounded himself as he was planting explosives near the home of a border police commander, said deputy provincial police chief Ziauddin Mamudi. Police arrested the bomb maker as he tried to escape and seized timers and explosives from his home and arrested five other suspects. In the eastern city of Jalalabad, Nangarhar province police and the intelligence service discovered a car full of explosive powder on Monday, and detonated it in a controlled explosion. |
| Posted by:Fred |