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| Six Nato soldiers and their Afghan translator have been killed by a bomb blast in southern Afghanistan, military officials have said. | |
| The soldiers and their interpreter died when the vehicle they were travelling in struck a roadside bomb. | The soldiers and their interpreter died when the vehicle they were travelling in struck a roadside bomb. |
| The Nato-led Isaf force has not given their nationality, but many of the troops in the south are Canadian. | |
| More than 100 foreign soldiers have died in Afghanistan so far this year, mainly in combat, the military says. | More than 100 foreign soldiers have died in Afghanistan so far this year, mainly in combat, the military says. |
| "Six Isaf soldiers and one Afghan Isaf employee were killed today in southern Afghanistan after the vehicle they were riding struck an improvised explosive device," an official statement said. | |
| Officials with Isaf - the International Security Assistance Force - did not say in which province the attack took place. | |
| But Afghan police officials told the Associated Press that a bomb struck a vehicle in the province of Kandahar. | |
| The blast was the deadliest attack against Nato forces since six Canadian soldiers were killed when a mine exploded on 8 April. |