By DPA
Kabul : The Taliban has claimed killing several US soldiers in southeastern Afghanistan in twin roadside bomb attacks Sunday.
Local officials have confirmed the death of two of the US-led coalition troops and wounding of three others.
A spokesman for the Taliban, Zabihullah Mujahid, said all the occupants of two military vehicles of US forces were killed in the two roadside bomb blasts in Zurmat district of Paktia province.
“Two Humvees of US soldiers were blown into pieces while on the way to the Ghorja area this midday. According to our information, all the personnel in the vehicles were killed and their bodies were later flown by helicopters,” Mujahid told DPA.
A senior provincial official, who did not want to be named, confirmed killing of at least two US soldiers and wounding of two in the blasts. He declined to elaborate on the incident.
Zurmat district has been the scene of a spate of increasing attacks on foreign and Afghan forces in recent months.
Afghanistan’s south and east is seeing resurgence in insurgency-led by remnants of the Taliban who were toppled in late 2001.