10 troops killed in attacks in Afghanistan
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KABUL, AFGHANISTAN — Five foreign troops and five Afghan soldiers were killed in roadside bombings Saturday, military officials said.
In the deadliest incident, a coalition convoy was struck by a roadside bomb west of the main southern city of Kandahar, killing four troops and wounding two.
U.S. coalition spokesman Lt. Col. Paul Fanning said gunmen opened fire on the damaged vehicles and three Afghans also were hurt. He declined to release the nationality of the troops, who were involved in training Afghans.
In a separate incident, attackers detonated bombs and opened fire on vehicles carrying Afghan troops in Zabol and Kunar provinces, killing five soldiers and wounding three.
A Polish soldier with the separate NATO-led force died when a bomb hit his patrol after midnight in Paktika province. Jacek Poplawski, a military spokesman in Warsaw, said four soldiers were wounded.
Shells fired from Pakistan landed in an Afghan army compound and close to an international military base in Paktika province, and North Atlantic Treaty Organization forces returned fire, officials said. No casualties were reported.
A rocket hit a hospital in the northeastern town of Asadabad close to the Pakistan border, killing one man and wounding a man and a woman.
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