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Afghan suicide blast 'kills four' in Laghman Four Nato soldiers killed in Afghanistan blast
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At least four people have been killed and 14 wounded in a suicide blast in eastern Afghanistan - the third such attack in as many days. Four Nato soldiers have been killed in an explosion in eastern Afghanistan.
The bomber struck a crowded market in Laghman province, a local government official told the AFP news agency. The International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) said they died following "an improvised explosive device attack". It gave no other details.
On Sunday gunmen stormed a government building in the city of Khost, killing six people. One day earlier a suicide bomber killed six in a Kabul hospital. The nationalities of the soldiers have not been made public.
The Taliban said that they carried out Monday's bombing. Separately, at least four people were killed and 14 wounded in a suicide blast in the eastern province of Laghman - the third such attack in as many days.
They recently declared a "spring offensive" of attacks against security forces across the country. The bomber struck a crowded market in Laghman province, a local government official told the AFP news agency. The Taliban said that they carried out the attack.
But an Afghan government spokesman said there were no government offices or military patrols in the town of Najeel Khan, in the Alishang district of Laghman, where the attack took place. The governor of Ali Shang district in Laghman, Faridullah Niazai, told the BBC's Bilal Sarwary that the target of the Laghman attack were members of a local security firm. But he said most of those killed and injured were civilians.
He said the attacker detonated explosives strapped to his body when people were gathering for lunch in a restaurant at a hotel.
Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai has condemned the attack calling it the work of enemies of the Afghan people.
On Sunday, gunmen stormed a government building in the city of Khost, killing six people. One day earlier a suicide bomber killed six in a Kabul hospital.
The Taliban have recently declared a "spring offensive" of attacks against security forces across the country.