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| Four US-led coalition soldiers have been killed by a bomb explosion in the southern Afghanistan province of Kandahar, military officials have said. | Four US-led coalition soldiers have been killed by a bomb explosion in the southern Afghanistan province of Kandahar, military officials have said. |
| Two more soldiers were seriously wounded when a roadside bomb exploded as the men were conducting operations. | Two more soldiers were seriously wounded when a roadside bomb exploded as the men were conducting operations. |
| The nationalities of the soldiers were not immediately known. | |
| Earlier this week Nato and Afghan forces said they had driven many Taleban fighters from the area during a major offensive in the province. | Earlier this week Nato and Afghan forces said they had driven many Taleban fighters from the area during a major offensive in the province. |
| Afghan officials say 56 Taleban and two Afghan troops died in the fighting on Thursday, in Arghandab district near Kandahar city, but there was no independent confirmation. | |
| The operation was in response to a massive jailbreak staged by the Taleban from Kandahar prison earlier this month, during which at least 350 insurgents were freed. | |
| Kandahar is one of the key battlegrounds of the current rebel insurgency against Afghanistan's government and troops from Nato and a US-led coalition. |