United States soldiers last week in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, where the reintegration program has been slow to catch on. Baz Ratner/ReutersEight Troops Die In A Day In Afghanistan: Military -- AFP
KABUL — Eight foreign soldiers died in one day in Afghanistan, officials said Sunday, including four in a single incident believed to have been a vehicle accident.
The four died Saturday of "non-battle related injuries" in southern Afghanistan, the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said in a statement.
That incident, in a region containing many of Afghanistan's bloodiest battlegrounds, came on a day when ISAF said four other foreign soldiers also died in separate insurgent attacks -- three in the south and one in the east.
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