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Afghanistan bomb kills Nato personnel in Zabul province Afghanistan bomb kills Nato personnel in Zabul
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Three foreign soldiers and two coalition civilian workers have been killed by a bomb in Afghanistan, the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) has said. A bomb in Afghanistan's southern Zabul province has killed five Americans - three soldiers and two civilians serving with the Nato-led forces - and an Afghan doctor.
Isaf said they had been killed by an improvised explosive device in southern Zabul province. The Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) said they were killed when a suicide bomber detonated a car full of explosives.
It has not yet released the nationalities of those killed. Another American civilian was killed in an insurgent attack in the east.
Nato is in the process of handing control of security operations to the Afghan forces. Nato is in the process of handing security operations to Afghan forces.
Some areas have already been transferred to Afghan forces. Just over 100,000 soldiers are still serving with Isaf; they are due to be withdrawn by the end of 2014. Some areas have already been transferred. Just over 100,000 soldiers are still serving with Isaf; they are due to be withdrawn by the end of 2014.
The AFP news agency quoted an Isaf spokesman in the capital, Kabul, as saying the blast had been a car bomb which hit a military vehicle. Dempsey visit
He said there had also been Afghan civilian casualties. In Zabul, the suicide bomber blew up his car between a convoy carrying the province's governor and his officials, and a US military convoy. They were passing one another by chance just outside a hospital and a school in the provincial capital, Qalat.
Zabul province is next to Kandahar, and shares a border with Pakistan.
The BBC's Caroline Wyatt in Kabul says provincial Governor Mohammad Ashraf Nasery believes his vehicle was the intended target.
Several other Afghans and Americans were injured in the explosion.
There were no more details of the death of the American in eastern Afghanistan, other than it was "an insurgent attack".
The killings came as Gen Martin Dempsey, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, arrived in Afghanistan to see the level of training American troops will give Afghan forces after Nato's combat mission finishes.
The deaths bring the number of coalition military forces killed in Afghanistan so far this year to 30, including 22 Americans and three Britons.