Two NATO Soldiers Killed In Afghanistan Bicycle Blast
November 24, 2014
Two foreign soldiers have been killed in an attack in the Afghan capital.
NATO said that "two NATO service members were killed in an attack in eastern Afghanistan" during the morning of November 24.
NATO did not give the nationalities of the two soldiers or the location of the attack.
Hashmat Stanekzai, the spokesman for Kabul's police chief, said a bomb attached to a bicycle exploded near a foreign military convoy in the eastern part of Kabul.
Stanekzai said one civilian was wounded in the explosion.
The deaths the number of foreign troops killed in Afghanistan this year to 63, including 46 U.S. troops.
The majority of foreign troops are due to be withdrawn from Afghanistan by the end of this year, with some 12,000 remaining into 2015.
Based on reporting by AP and dpa
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