- (Reuters) - One U.S. soldier was killed and four were
wounded by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan, a U.S. military spokeswoman
said on Saturday, the latest casualties in a surge of violence in the run-up
to a September 18 election.
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- "There were five wounded and one died," said
U.S. military spokeswoman, Lieutenant Cindy Moore.
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- "The IED (improvised explosive device) struck their
humvee," she said, referring to the military vehicle involved in the
Friday attack in Paktika province, south of Kabul, near the Pakistani border.
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- Forty-eight American soldiers have died in combat in
Afghanistan this year making it the worst period since U.S. forces arrived
to oust the Taliban in October 2001.
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