Kabul: At least two Nato soldiers were killed and six others wounded when a rocket fired by Taliban landed on a Nato base in the eastern Afghan province of Kunar, officials said.
A local spokesman for Nato’s International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) said of the latest incident: “Two Isaf soldiers were killed and six others injured in a Taliban rocket attack on an Isaf base in Nari district today.”
Two other local officials confirmed the account, while the Isaf press office in Kabul
said that “two service members died following an insurgent attack in eastern Afghanistan”.
It gave no further details and did not reveal the nationalities of the dead soldiers, in line with policy.
It came a day after gunmen dressed in Afghan police uniforms and wearing suicide vests stormed a government compound in the southwestern province of Farah, killing seven people and wounding 12 others.
Isaf has around 130,000 soldiers fighting alongside some 350,000 Afghan security personnel against the hardline Islamists.
The Taliban this month announced the start of their annual spring offensive, a campaign of bombings and attacks that picks up every year as the weather warms.
At least 158 Isaf troops have died in Afghanistan this year, according to a toll by the website icasualties.org. More than 3,000 have been killed since the US led an invasion to topple the Taliban in late 2001.
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