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FOX NEWS – A roadside bomb killed six NATO servicemen in Afghanistan Sunday, according to coalition statements, bringing up the number of troop deaths over the weekend to eight, Reuters reports.
According to a senior US official, all 6 NATO forces killed in Eastern Afghanistan were American.
Afghan and NATO authorities said Sunday that additional roadside bombs and insurgent attacks killed at least 16 Afghan civilians, five policemen and two other NATO members in southern Afghanistan where militants are trying to reclaim territory.
A surge in Afghan and coalition forces during the past two years routed Taliban fighters from many of their strongholds in the south, but the insurgents stepped up their attacks this summer to take back key areas.
The civilians, including women and children, were killed in a trio of blasts in Arghistan district, along Afghanistan’s border with Pakistan.
Kandahar province spokesman Ahmad Jawed Faisal said one bomb exploded when a minivan ran over it Sunday morning. A second went off when other civilians riding a tractor arrived to help the wounded. A third explosion occurred about two hours later when a civilian vehicle hit a roadside bomb in another area of the district, killing two women.
At least 10 other civilians were injured in the three blasts.