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| Afghanistan |
| Blast hurts coalition troops |
| 2006-06-06 |
| A SUSPECTED suicide car bomb struck a convoy of US-led coalition troops in eastern Afghanistan today, wounding a number of soldiers, the coalition said. The blast occurred in eastern Khost province on the border with Pakistan, coalition spokeswoman Lieutenant Tamara Lawrence told AFP. "There are no reports of coalition fatalities. However, there are some coalition wounded," she said. There are regular suicide attacks in Afghanistan carried out by Taliban insurgents trying to regain power after being ousted from government by a US-led coalition in late 2001. The most recent was on Sunday and aimed at Canadian troops driving in convoy through the centre of Afghanistan's main city in the south, Kandahar. Four bystanders were killed and a dozen wounded. |
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