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Afghanistan
Child, Policeman, Nato Soldier Killed in Afghan South
2012-09-21
A hidden improvised bomb in a cycle of violence killed a child and a policeman in southern Kandahar province Thursday evening, officials said.

The bomb was planted in the cycle of violence and exploded as a police convoy was passing in an area of Kandahar city at around 7:00PM, provincial front man Javid Faisal told TOLOnews.

Two other children and another police officer were maimed in the incident which also damaged the police Ranger vehicle, he added.

It comes as a NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
soldier was killed Thursday in southern Afghanistan during an jihad boy attack, according to an Isaf statement.

No further details of the location of the incident or the nationality of the solider were released, as per Isaf protocol.

The death brings the total number of foreign troops killed this year in the Afghan war to 340.

There are around 117,000 international soldiers, mostly Americans, fighting cut-throats in Afghanistan.

No group including the Taliban has grabbed credit for the Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
blast.
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