KABUL (Agencies) – Ten NATO soldiers, including at least one American, were killed on Monday in shooting and bomb attacks in war-torn southern Afghanistan, the NATO said late on Monday.
“Today 10 ISAF soldiers were killed in Afghanistan,” a spokesman for the International Security Assistance Force told AFP.
Five of the soldiers died after an improvised explosive device (IED) detonated in eastern Afghanistan, one died as a result of gunfire also in the east and another was killed by an IED in the south, it said in a statement.
Earlier, the military had announced that three NATO soldiers, including at least one American, were killed in separate shooting and bomb attacks in the south, where much of Afghanistan’s unrest is taking place.
The deaths follow the killings on Sunday of five ISAF soldiers, four of them Americans, in two separate attacks and a crash.
An ISAF spokesman told AFP that an American soldier was killed in the shooting incident.
Separately two foreign nationals were killed in a suicide bomb and commando attack on an Afghan police training centre in Kandahar on Monday, officials said.
An American and another unidentified foreigner, both with the US security firm DynCorp, which is contracted to help with police training, were killed in the attack.
The Kandahar governor’s spokesman said one suspected Taliban insurgent blew himself up, blasting open the gates of the training centre and allowing two other insurgents to enter and start a gunfight before they were killed.
One of the rebels detonated a bomb-filled car along the wall of the facility in a bid to punch open a route for his comrades in the southern province, the interior ministry said in the capital Kabul.
Source: TheNation.com.pk