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Seven US soldiers killed in southern Afghan blast

Seven US soldiers were killed and three others wounded on Jan. 29 in an explosion in a southern Afghan province, a statement of US Central Command said.

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Seven US soldiers were killed and three others wounded on Jan. 29 in an explosion in a southern Afghan province, a statement of US Central Command said.

The soldiers were killed on Thursday afternoon while dealing with a weapon cache in the southern Ghazni province, about 200 kilometers from here, according to the statement.

The wounded soldiers were rushed to a field hospital at the US military's Bagram air base near Kabul, the headquarters of US-led coalition forces in Afghanistan.

About 11,000 US-led forces, including some 9,000 Americans, are deployed in different parts of Afghanistan, hunting for remnants of the ousted Taliban and its al-Qaeda allies.

Thursday's explosion took place just after two serial suicide attacks by suspected Taliban bombers on Tuesday and Wednesday, which killed one Canadian and one British soldiers and injured seven others of the international peacekeeping troops in the capital city here.

The 5,700-strong International Security Assistance Force (ISAF),which is under NATO command, is mainly maintaining peace and order in Kabul and surrounding areas and operating separately from the US-led coalition.

Source: Xinhua

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