4 Isaf soldiers killed in Afghanistan
Four foreign soldiers, three of them American, have been killed in Afghanistan, Nato's International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) said yesterday.
Two soldiers were killed in separate incidents "as a result of enemy activity in southern and eastern Afghanistan in the last 24 hours," Isaf said in a statement.
One of the US soldiers died after a grenade attack in the east of the country. Another soldier was killed by an improvised explosive device in the south.
Isaf did not disclose the nationality of the latter soldier. But Britain's defence ministry said an airman from 34 Squadron Royal Air Force Regiment was killed by an explosion while on patrol near Britain's Camp Bastion in Helmand province on Thursday.
An Isaf media officer told AFP later that two US soldiers were killed in an incident west of Kandahar, in southern Afghanistan, on Friday.
"There was an incident. There were casualties associated with that," the officer added. No further details were immediately available.
A total of 384 foreign service personnel have died in Afghanistan so far this year, including 226 from the United States and 82 from Britain, according to an AFP toll based on icasualties.org, a website tracking coalition deaths.
Nearly 1,430 troops have died since the start of the US-led military action to oust Afghanistan's hardline former Taliban rulers in October 2001, the website said.
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