Kabul: Roadside bombs have killed eight Afghan
soldiers and a US service member in separate incidents in
Afghanistan, officials said on Friday.
NATO confirmed the American died yesterday in eastern
Afghanistan, but provided no other details.
Also yesterday, an Afghan army vehicle hit a roadside
bomb in Uruzgan province in central Afghanistan. Army
commander Abdul Hamid said eight soldiers who were inside the
vehicle were killed as they were returning from the provincial
capital of Tarin Kot.
NATO said Afghan and international forces on Friday found
a truck in southern Afghanistan that was filled with 10 tons
of fertilizer containing ammonium nitrate, a chemical often
used in making explosives. The troops destroyed the fertilizer
in southern Kandahar province, returned the truck to the owner
and compensated him for the fertilizer.
The government of Afghanistan gave the coalition force
permission in September 2009 to confiscate any supplies of
ammonium nitrate fertilizers being kept or transported in the
country; farmers are urged to use fertilizer containing urea
nitrate instead.
Separately, NATO said today that a local Afghan citizen
turned over 68 Russian mortar grenades at a provincial
reconstruction team compound in western Afghanistan.
PTI
