Two UK troops, over 30 Afghan Taliban killed-military

Source: Reuters

Two UK troops, over 30 Afghan Taliban killed-military
09 Sep 2007 06:05:37 GMT

KABUL, Sept 9 (Reuters) - Two British soldiers and more
than 30 Taliban guerrillas were killed in separate
incidents in southern Afghanistan, the British and U.S.
military said, the latest clashes in a raging insurgency.

In another incident in the same restive southern province
of Helmand on Saturday, an Afghan employee of a U.S.
security firm was killed and three others were wounded
in a suicide bomb attack, the Interior Ministry said on
Sunday.

The British soldiers were killed while taking part in a pre-
dawn operation on Saturday to disrupt the Taliban in
Helmand when their patrol came under attack, Britain's
Ministry of Defence said.

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Afghan and U.S.-led coalition forces backed by air strikes
meanwhile killed more than 30 Taliban fighters in a
separate clash in Helmand on Saturday, and destroyed a
large cache of weaponry, the U.S. military said.

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