Coalition soldier killed in Afghanistan ambush

Suspected Taliban militants ambushed a US-led coalition patrol in southern Afghanistan killing one soldier while another attack on police in the east left two militants and one policeman dead, officials said today.

Coalition soldier killed in Afghanistan ambush

Suspected Taliban militants ambushed a US-led coalition patrol in southern Afghanistan killing one soldier while another attack on police in the east left two militants and one policeman dead, officials said today.

The militants fired a rocket-propelled grenade on a military convoy in Kandahar’s restless Panjwayi district yesterday, killing the soldier and damaging one vehicle, said Capt. Andre Salloum, a Nato spokesman in the area.

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