BFF-24 Suicide attack kills three NATO soldiers in Afghanistan: official

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Suicide attack kills three NATO soldiers in Afghanistan: official

KABUL, Aug 5, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – A suicide bomber killed three foreign
soldiers in an attack on a patrol in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, NATO’s
mission in the country said.

“Three Resolute Support service members were killed by a suicide bomber
during a combined, dismounted patrol with Afghan forces in eastern
Afghanistan,” it said in a statement.

A US member of the patrol and two Afghan soldiers were wounded, it said,
without giving the nationality of those killed.

The attack by a lone bomber on foot happened at 6am in the city of Charikar
in Parwan province some 60 kilometres north of Kabul, said provincial
governor’s spokesman Wahida Shahkar.

The Taliban in a statement claimed responsibility.

The US-led NATO force ended its combat mission in Afghanistan in 2014 and
pulled out the bulk of its troops. A 16,000-strong residual force remains for
training and counter-terrorism operations.

Last month a US soldier was killed and two others wounded in an “apparent
insider attack” in southern Afghanistan, NATO said.

BSS/AFP/FI/ 1528 hrs