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KABUL (AFP) - – Three NATO soldiers and more than two dozen other people including women and children were killed in a wave of violence across war-troubled Afghanistan Tuesday, authorities said.
 
The soldiers and eight civilians including at least three women and a child lost their lives in Taliban-style bomb explosions from late Monday, the alliance's force and Afghan officials said.
 
The NATO soldiers, whose nationalities were not disclosed, died in two separate attacks, one in eastern and the other in western Afghanistan, NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said.
 
Both attacks took place on Tuesday, ISAF said.
 
Afghan officials said two civilians were killed when a bomb placed on a motorcycle went off in the southern province of Ghazni, also on Tuesday.
 
The blast took place just as a police convoy was about to pass, said Mohammad Osman, commander of Afghanistan's southeastern police zone.
 
"Two civilians were martyred and another five were wounded," he said.
 
In Kandahar province, also in the south and one of Afghanistan's most troubled regions, an influential tribal elder was killed in a blast that authorities blamed on the Taliban-led militants, said provincial spokesman Zalmai Ayoubi.
 
Zakaria Khan, a pro-government tribal chieftain, died in his timber shop in the town of Spin Boldak on the Pakistan border, Ayoubi said.
 
The blast appeared as if someone had thrown a hand grenade, he said, adding that two other elders had been injured.
 
Elsewhere in Afghanistan, 17 Taliban-linked militants were killed during an operation in the remote northwestern province of Badghis, said army spokesman Najibullah Najibi.
 
"As a result of an ongoing military operation which was launched in Bala Murghab district last night 17 Taliban were killed," the spokesman said.
 
Ten other rebels were injured in the raids on the Taliban hideouts, he said.
 
Afghanistan is gripped in an increasingly deadly insurgency being waged by the remnants of the Taliban. The surge in the violence has also led to a rise in the number of military casualties in recent months.
 
The latest NATO deaths bring to 436 the number of foreign soldiers have died in Afghanistan since the start of the year, compared with 520 for the whole of 2009, according to an AFP count based on that kept by the icasualties.org website.
 
There are close to 150,000 foreign troops in Afghanistan, in a US-led NATO force fighting to shore up Afghanistan's fledgling government against an insurgency raging since the Islamists were thrown from power in late 2001.
 
The military meanwhile announced that it had killed a militant leader linked to the kidnapping and killing of two US sailors late last month.
 
The sailors were kidnapped after leaving a military base in Logar province, south of Kabul, in late July, and their bodies were found separately days later.
 
The Taliban later claimed responsibility for their deaths.
 
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
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