A roadside bomb has killed three soldiers from the US-led coalition force in Afghanistan.
Violence has surged to its worst level this year, resulting so far in the killing of some 4,000 people, a third of them civilians, the bloodiest period since US-led troops overthrew the Taliban government in 2001.
The roadside bomb hit a vehicle of the coalition soldiers yesterday in the western part of the country, the US military said in a statement last night. It did not give the nationality of the victims.
Resurgent Taliban fighters use suicide and roadside bomb attacks in their attempt to topple the Western-backed government and to cause the withdrawal of foreign forces from the country.
Elsewhere, gunmen seized two Bangladeshi aid workers near a government building in the heart of Ghazni town today which lies to the southwest of Kabul, police said.
No one has claimed responsibility for the abduction.
REUTERS