By KUNA,
Kabul : A roadside bomb killed four soldiers of the US-led coalition in eastern Afghanistan, the military said on Wednesday.
The coalition troops did not disclose nationalities of the soldiers killed. Also it did not reveal the exact location of the explosion.
Eastern Afghanistan groups the provinces of Laghman, Kunar, Nuristan and Nangarhar.
Although nationalities of the soldiers were not disclosed, majority of the troops operating in the eastern Afghanistan are Americans.
Among the four eastern provinces, the mountainous Kunar is considered the stronghold of Taliban, Al-Qaeda and Hezb-e-Islami of former premier Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.
The previous two months have remained the worst for the coalition and NATO troops during which their casualty toll reached to that of Iraq for the first time.
During the previous year, 111 US soldiers were killed in Afghanistan. This is the highest number of casualties the US troops suffered since their coming into Afghanistan in late 2001.