Bombs kill Afghans, US-led soldier dies in action

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Source: AFP

KABUL (AFP) - Bomb blasts killed an Afghan child and six security guards Friday as officials reported that a US-led soldier and several militants were slain in an intensifying Taliban insurgency.

Two other guards were wounded when the roadside bomb blew up their truck at Qarghayi, about 100 kilometres (60 miles) east of Kabul, Laghman province police chief Abdul Karim Omaryar told AFP.

It was not clear if the bomb was newly planted by insurgents or left over from years of war, he said.

In the southern city of Kandahar, a bomb fixed to a bicycle exploded near a busy shrine, killing a child and wounding two other civilians, provincial police chief Sayed Aqa Saqib told AFP


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