FACTBOX: Security developments in Afghanistan

Sat Oct 24, 2009 8:15am EDT
 
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(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Afghanistan reported at 7:30 p.m. EDT (1130 GMT) on Saturday:

SOUTHERN AFGHANISTAN - Two U.S. service members working for the NATO-led force were killed in a roadside bomb attack in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, the alliance said in a statement.

In a separate incident in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, a foreign soldier of undisclosed nationality was killed in a fire fight, the statement added.

The alliance gave no further details of either incident.

(Reporting by Golnar Motevalli; Editing by Andrew Dobbie)

 

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