Five US soldiers were killed in Afghanistan on Tuesday, Nato said, as the number of Americans to die in the war in the past four days climbed to 22. Four soldiers were killed in eastern Afghanistan in a Taliban-style bomb attack, Nato's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said.
The fifth died in an insurgent attack in the south of the country, where the insurgency is at its fiercest, it said in a separate statement. A spokesman confirmed to AFP that all the dead were Americans. The deaths bring to 485 the total number of foreign troops killed in the Afghan war this year, compared to 521 for all of 2009, according to an AFP tally based on that kept by the independent icasualties.org website. The deaths come a day after eight Nato troops - seven of them American - were killed in bomb attacks in southern Afghanistan.