A foreign soldier in Afghanistan fighting the Taliban insurgency has been killed by a roadside bomb in the most volatile part of the country, Nato said Sunday.
The soldier, whose nationality was not given, was the third to die as a result of a Taliban-style attack using an improvised explosive device (IED) on Saturday, the statement from Nato's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said. The statement did not say if the incident was the same as one previously announced by the defence ministry in the Netherlands that killed two Dutch soldiers in Uruzgan province.
The latest death takes to 165 the number of foreign troops killed so far in 2010, according to an AFP toll based on the independent icasualties.org website, which tracks coalition deaths.
There are 126,000 US and Nato troops in Afghanistan fighting a virulent insurgency concentrated in the country's south. Deployment will peak at 150,000 in August as the coalition attempts to bring a swift end to the war so that troops can begin to withdraw from mid-2011.
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