3 US-led soldiers killed in Afghanistan

Three US-led NATO troops have been killed in separate attacks in Afghanistan, raising the death toll for foreign soldiers to six only five days into 2011. Two soldiers were killed in a bomb explosion in the east and the third died in a similar attack in the south, AFP reported on Wednesday.

A record 711 soldiers were slain in 2010 in the deadliest year for foreign troops involved in the war in Afghanistan.
According to official figures, more than 2,200 US-led soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan since the US-led invasion of the country in 2001.
Figures released by Afghanistan’s Baakhtar News Agency, however, put the foreign troops’ death toll at nearly 4,500.
Despite the presence of some 150,000 US-led foreign troops in Afghanistan, the country remains devastated by militancy as well as persistent bombardments and ground attacks by foreign troops.
The climbing military casualties come with a comparable rise in Afghan civilian death toll.

Source: Press TV