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U.S. Army Captain Michael Kelvington, commander of the Battle company, 1-508 Parachute Infantry battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, bows next to remains of Gulam Dostager, a member of Afghan Local Police who was killed in the blast of an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) during the joint Tor Janda (Black Flag in Pashtu) operation, in Zahri district of Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan May 25, 2012. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: MILITARY CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

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U.S. Army Captain Michael Kelvington, commander of the Battle company, 1-508 Parachute Infantry battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, bows next to remains of Gulam Dostager, a member of Afghan Local Police who was killed in the blast of an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) during the joint Tor Janda (Black Flag in Pashtu) operation, in Zahri district of Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan May 25, 2012. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: MILITARY CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

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FACTBOX: Security developments in Afghanistan

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Wed Aug 5, 2009 3:08am EDT

(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Afghanistan at 3 a.m. EDT on Wednesday:

HERAT - A district security official who was targeted by a Taliban bomb in Herat city, west Afghanistan, on Monday, died of his wounds at a military hospital in Kandahar, south Afghanistan, said Samanwar Noorkhan Nikzhad, a spokesman for Herat's security directorate. The death raised the toll from the incident to 13.

KANDAHAR - Four members of one family were killed in a foreign forces air strike in Arghandab district in southern Kandahar province late on Tuesday, villagers said, after bringing the bodies to the provincial capital to show officials. NATO-led troops said they were checking the report.

(Compiled by Golnar Motevalli; Editing by Peter Graff)
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