Kabul: At least seven people including three NATO soldiers were killed and several others wounded in different incidents in Afghanistan.
In the first incident, a roadside bomb killed four Afghan civilians in a car in the country’s south, the government said.
The victims were driving in Kandahar province’s Shorabak district when their vehicle struck the bomb, the Interior Ministry said. The incident is being investigated, the ministry said.
Civilians have increasingly become the victims of insurgent attacks as Taliban militants wage a violent campaign against international and Afghan forces in the south.
In another incident, One NATO troop was killed in a Taliban bomb attack in the central province of Daykundi.
The provincial Governor Qurban Ali Oruzgani said that the blast occurred in the Kajran district.
Three other foreign soldiers and their translator were wounded.
Two NATO troops were killed separately in southern and eastern Afghanistan.
NATO did not provide further details or identify the nationalities of the dead.
The deaths push to 83 the number of foreign troops killed in Afghanistan so far in 2011.
NATO’s deaths in 2010 stood at 711, making the year the deadliest for foreign forces in Afghanistan since the start of the war.
NATO has admitted to the rising power of militants in Afghanistan despite the increasing presence of US-led forces in the country, which currently stands at 150,000.
The invasion of Afghanistan took place with the official objective of curbing militancy and bringing peace and stability to the country. Nine years on, however, Afghanistan remains unstable and civilians continue to pay the price.
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