By Xinhua
Kabul : Two soldiers of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) were killed in southern Afghanistan Wednesday, an ISAF statement said.
They were killed in two separate engagements with enemy fighters, said the brief statement, which did not tell which provinces the incidents occurred.
Militants had killed an ISAF soldier in eastern Afghanistan Tuesday.
About 5,000 British soldiers are operating in the southern Helmand province, while some 2,500 Canadian soldiers are being deployed in the southern Kandahar province.
A bomb struck a vehicle carrying the police chief of Yahya Khil district Wednesday, killing him on the spot, Paktika province governor Akram Khapalwak told Xinhua.
Due to rising Taliban-linked insurgency, over 1,800 people, most of whom were Taliban militants, have been killed in Afghanistan this year.
About 37,000 ISAF soldiers are operating in Afghanistan to hunt down militants and keep security.