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Bombs Kills Three In Southern Afghanistan

August 23, 2006

Canadian soldiers on the site of an attack earlier this year on one of their patrols in Kandahar (epa)

August 23, 2006 -- An Afghan official says that two roadside bombs have killed three civilians and injured one in southern Afghanistan.


Dawood Ahmadi, a spokesman for the governor of Kandahar Province, said both explosions occurred along the same road, in the Daman district.


In other developments, NATO says a NATO soldier died of wounds sustained in a suicide attack on a Canadian military convoy in the city of Kandahar on August 22.


(AP)

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