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Coalition soldier among 25 killed in Afghan violence
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 02 - 01 - 2008

A coalition soldier and his Afghan interpreter were
killed in a roadside attack, while 18 militants and five security
forces were killed and 30 other rebels were detained in clashes and
other incidents in various parts of the country, officials said on
Wednesday, according to dpa.
Two more US-led coalition soldiers were wounded in the roadside
bomb attack, known as improvised explosive device (IED) in the south-
eastern province of Khost on Wednesday, US military said in a
statement.
The statement did not identify the nationalities of the wounded
and dead soldiers. The majority of troops serving under coalition
banners are Americans.
Meanwhile, Taliban claimed to have shot down a US military
helicopter in eastern province of Kunar on Wednesday, a statement in
rebel website said.
However, a US military spokesman in Bagram, the main US military
base in Afghanistan, rejected the Taliban's assertion, saying that a
civilian chopper hauling logistic for the coalition forces had "an
emergency landing due to technical problem".
He said that no one was hurt in the "hard landing" and the
helicopter continued its mission after fixing the chopper.
Five Taliban rebels were killed in an explosion after the vehicle
that they were fitting with a car bomb exploded on Wednesday in
Panjwayi district of southern Kandahar province, Sayed Agha Saqib,
the provincial police chief, told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.


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