KABUL, Sept 7 (AFP): Two NATO soldiers were killed and several wounded in bomb blasts in southern Afghanistan Thursday, while 20 insurgents died in fierce fighting, security forces said.
NATO's International Security Assistance Force did not give the nationalities of its casualties, leaving such announcements for the home nations of the soldiers.
More than 20 insurgents were killed in an eight-hour battle in the southern province of Kandahar that erupted after around 30 militants attacked a patrol, a coalition headed by the United States said separately.
Meanwhile: Unknown gunmen believed to be Taliban insurgents kidnapped an Afghan demining team that includes two doctors in a remote village in eastern Afghanistan, officials said today.
The team from the Afghan Technical Consultants non- governmental organisation was snatched at gunpoint Thursday about 80 kilometres (50 miles) south of Kabul, the director of the organisation told AFP.
"Thirteen of our staff have been kidnapped," director Kefayatullah Eblagh told AFP in Kabul. The team included two doctors and eight mine clearers, as well as drivers and assistants.
He could not say who took the men. Villagers in the area in the eastern Paktia province reported seeing the group being driven off by unknown gunmen.
Two NATO soldiers, 20 Taliban killed in Afghanistan
FE Team | Published: September 08, 2007 00:00:00 | Updated: February 01, 2018 00:00:00
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