By IRNA
Kabul : Roadside bombs and military operations in Afghanistan killed 21 people, including a coalition soldier and 14 Talibans, officials said Wednesday.
A roadside bomb hit a US-led coalition vehicle Wednesday in eastern Khost province, killing a soldier and an Afghan interpreter, the coalition said in a statement.
Two other soldiers were wounded.
Afghan and foreign troops killed eight suspected Talibans Tuesday in southern Afghanistan, while another roadside bomb in Khost killed two Afghan security guards working for a US military base, an Afghan Defense Ministry statement said.
Five other militants were killed in separate incidents when roadside bombs they were planting exploded prematurely, the ministry statement said.
It also said Taliban militants killed an Afghan army officer and wounded another in Helmand province’s Sarkono area.
Police in Khost killed a would-be suicide bomber who was carrying hand grenades as he tried to enter a police checkpoint Tuesday.
A roadside bomb in the south also killed two border police in Kandahar province.
Afghan and foreign troops killed the eight suspected militants in Helmand’s Musa Qala area, the statement said.
Helmand, the world’s largest poppy-growing region, has seen some of Afghanistan’s worst violence in the past year.
British, US and Afghan troops forced the Taliban to flee the town of Musa Qala last month.