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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Insurgent attacks in southern Afghanistan killed a British soldier and wounded seven other troops Sunday, while police killed 10 suspected Taliban militants who struck a government compound, officials said.
A NATO soldier and six Afghan troops were wounded when mortars hit their base in Kandahar province early Sunday, a NATO statement said. It said three women were killed when mortar rounds also landed in a nearby village.
Gunmen also killed four people, including two police, in western Afghanistan Sunday, the provincial governor said. The attackers targeted a police checkpoint in the Jena district of the western province of Farah, said the governor, Hazatullah Wasefi.
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