Coalition soldier killed in Afghanistan ambush
Suspected Taliban militants ambushed a US-led coalition patrol in southern Afghanistan killing one soldier while another attack on police in the east left two militants and one policeman dead, officials said today.
The militants fired a rocket-propelled grenade on a military convoy in Kandahar’s restless Panjwayi district yesterday, killing the soldier and damaging one vehicle, said Capt. Andre Salloum, a Nato spokesman in the area.
He did not identify the nationality of the dead soldier, but the majority of coalition troops are American.
In the east, militants fired rocket-propelled grenades and heavy machine guns on the police post in Khost province late yesterday, which also left two policemen wounded, said Gen. Mohammad Ayub, the provincial police chief.
Police rushed reinforcements to the area forcing the Taliban to flee, Ayub said.
Also in the east, suspected Taliban militants released three kidnapped Afghan aid workers, but were still holding two other hostages, said Gen. Abdul Anan Raufi, a provincial police chief.
The four aid workers and their driver, employed by the International Organisation for Migration, were abducted on Sunday in eastern Paktia province, Raufi said.
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