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Four Nato soldiers killed in Afghanistan blast | |
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Four Nato soldiers have been killed in an explosion in eastern Afghanistan. | |
The International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) said they died following "an improvised explosive device attack". It gave no other details. | |
The nationalities of the soldiers have not been made public. | |
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. | |
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. | |
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. |
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