2 NATO Soldiers, 3 UN Employees Killed in Afghanistan, July 8, 2010

2 NATO Soldiers, 3 UN Employees Killed in Afghanistan

July 8, 2010

Editor's Note:

Most of the Afghanistan War news are not published due to NAOT control of information and lack of Taliban side of news.

Three UN staff killed in Afghanistan

Press TV, Thursday, 08 July, 2010 07:43:54 GMT

Three staff members of the United Nations have been killed after a bomb went off in Afghanistan.

A Press TV correspondent reported that the UN staff members were killed by a roadside bomb in Parwan Province on Thursday.

Abdol-Rahman Seyyed Kheili, the police chief of the province, also told Press TV that a roadside bomb blast ripped through a UN vehicle, killing three people and injuring another one on board.

The police chief further added that the victims were members of the UN staff.

The official did not identify the nationality of the victims.

No one has claimed responsibility for the attack yet.

DB/HRF

Two foreign soldiers killed in Afghanistan: NATO

Thursday, July 8, 2010, 5:10 am ET

KABUL (AFP) –

Two NATO soldiers were killed Thursday in separate insurgent attacks in southern and eastern Afghanistan, the military alliance said, amid a surge in troop deaths in recent months.

NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) did not give details but an official working for the US military in the eastern province of Kunar told AFP that a US soldier had died in a militant rocket attack on a base.

The soldier was killed when a rocket fired by Taliban-linked insurgents landed in the American outpost in the province's Asmar district, a restive region on the Pakistani border, the official said.

The other casualty was caused by an improvised bomb attack in southern Afghanistan, an ISAF statement said.

The new deaths took to 341 the number of foreign troops killed in Afghanistan this year so far.

June accounted for 102 of the deaths, making it the deadliest month for the force since its deployment in 2001.

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