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KABUL, June 6 (KUNA) -- A soldier of the International Security Assistance
Force (ISAF) was killed in southern Afghanistan on Saturday.
Spokesperson for the multinational force Brigadier-General Richard
Blanchette said the soldier died as a result of a hostile incident.
The ISAF headquarters did not release name and nationality of the slain
soldier. Exact location of the incident was also not disclosed.
In northern Afghanistan, militants attacked office of the United Nations
Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) and injured two local security guards.
The attack on the FAO office was carried out in the country's northern
province of Kunduz this morning, said a police official. The attackers managed
to escape.
In a third incident the same day, a suicide bomber injured two children as
the explosives fastened to his body went off prematurely in the country's
southern province of Kandahar.
Local officials said the bomber was standing on roadside. The device
suddenly went off that killed the bomber himself and injured two children.
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