Roadside bomb kills two soldiers in Afghanistan

KABUL (Reuters) - A roadside bomb killed two Afghan soldiers and wounded two more in the south of the country, the Defense Ministry said in a statement on Saturday.

Taliban insurgents planted hundreds of roadside bombs in 2007, contributing to a record year of violence that killed more than 6,000 people, nearly 2,000 of them civilians. "The soldiers were conducting a security patrol in the Sangin district of Helmand province when their vehicle hit a remote-controlled roadside bomb," the statement said of the attack, which took place on Friday.

Meanwhile, U.S.-led coalition and Afghan troops detained three people suspected of involvement in the planting of roadside bombs in the Bermel district of Paktika province near the Pakistan border, the U.S. military said in a statement on Saturday.

(Reporting by Hamid Shalizi; Editing by Alex Richardson)