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| Blasts kill 2 NATO soldiers in Afghanistan |
| 2007-04-14 |
| KABUL - Two NATO soldiers have been killed in separate roadside bomb blasts in eastern Afghanistan, bringing the number of foreign troop casualties this week to 11. The deaths came the same day as a helicopter chartered by the U.S.-led coalition crash-landed due to technical problems southwest of Kabul, a US military spokesman said on Friday. Rescuers came under fire from suspected Taleban fighters at the site in Ghazni province after Thursday nightÂ’s crash. Three Taleban were killed in the resulting gunbattle but there were no casualties among the rescuing troops or the five contractors aboard the aircraft. Earlier on Thursday, two NATO convoys about 8 km (5 miles) apart on separate operations supporting Afghan security forces were attacked within 30 minutes of each other on Thursday, the alliance said in a statement. One soldier was also wounded. As part of a new NATO policy the alliance refuses to detail where attacks occur, saying that could identify the nationalities of the dead before families have been notified. |
| Posted by:Steve White |