A US soldier walks past an Apache helicopter at Salerno airfield in Khost province, Afghanistan. An air strike by international forces mistakenly killed nine Afghan soldiers on Wednesday, the defence ministry said, in the latest in a string of errors to hit the campaign against Taliban militants. (AFP/File/Massoud Hossaini)Bomb Kills Three Coalition Soldiers In Afghanistan
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KABUL (Reuters) – A roadside bomb has killed three soldiers from the U.S.-led coalition force in Afghanistan, the U.S. military said.
Violence has surged to its worst level this year, resulting so far in the killing of some 4,000 people, a third of them civilians, the bloodiest period since U.S.-led troops overthrew the Taliban government in 2001.
The roadside bomb hit a vehicle of the coalition soldiers Wednesday evening in the western part of the country, the U.S. military said in a statement late the same day. It did not give the nationality of the victims.
Resurgent Taliban fighters use suicide and roadside bomb attacks in their attempt to topple the Western-backed government and to cause the withdrawal of foreign forces from the country.
Thursday, unknown gunmen seized two Bangladeshi aid workers near a government building in the heart of Ghazni town which lies to the southwest of Kabul, police said.
No one has claimed responsibility for the abduction.