April 17, 2008	Thursday	Rabi-us-Sani 10, 1429

KABUL, April 16: Two Nato-led soldiers were killed and two others were wounded in an explosion in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, the alliance force said.

The latest casualties come three days after two British soldiers serving with Nato’s International Security Assistance Force died in an explosion in the volatile southern province of Kandahar.

“Two ISAF soldiers were killed and two were wounded during an explosion in southern Afghanistan early this morning,” the alliance force said in a statement. It gave no further details.

ISAF did not reveal the names or nationalities of the victims, leaving that task to their home countries, nor did it reveal the exact location of the incident.

It was not immediately clear who might have been behind the explosion but similar acts have in the past been blamed on the Taliban militants.More than 70 people including two dozen police and as many civilians, including two Indian road construction engineers, have died in violence in the past three weeks.

Most of the deadly violence occurred in the country’s south and east — a troubled region bordering Pakistan, where militants are active and are said to have some local support.—AFP