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NATO Soldiers Killed In Suicide Attack In Khost Province

Two NATO soldiers were killed in a suicide attack in the Babrak Tana area of Afghanistan’s eastern Khost province on Tuesday, according to a Pashtu-language Afghan daily.

The attack took place at a checkpoint of the Afghan and NATO forces, according to a report in the Pashtu-language newspaper Wrazpanra Eradu.

The explosion occurred when a man with a suicide vest entered the checkpost and detonated the vest.

Source: Wrazpanra Eradu, Afghanistan, March 11, 2010

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