Two NATO soldiers, gov killed in Afghan attacks

KABUL (AFP) - Two NATO soldiers and an Afghan government official were killed in separate attacks across the troubled country, authorities said Tuesday. The latest deaths brought to 629 the number of foreign soldiers killed so far this year in the Afghan war, according to an AFP count. NATOs International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said one soldier was killed in an insurgent attack on Monday in the countrys east, and another in the south by a bomb on Tuesday. Their nationalities were not released and there were no further details. On Tuesday, a district governor was killed in another Taliban-style bomb explosion in eastern Paktia province, local authorities said. Shwak district chief, Ali Abad, was on his way to work when his vehicle struck the device and was killed on the spot, provincial spokesman, Rohullah Samoon told AFP. The district chief was martyred in the blast, Samoon said.

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