KABUL, June 6: Two US and two Afghan soldiers were killed in bomb blasts in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, while three Afghans died when explosives that were being rigged to a motorbike detonated, officials said.

The Americans were killed when a remote-controlled bomb planted on the side of a road in eastern Nangarhar province, close to the border with Pakistan, was detonated as a combat patrol passed, the US-led coalition said in a statement.

Another US soldier and an Afghan interpreter were wounded in the blast, it said.

A man claiming to be a Taliban spokesman, Mohammed Hanif, said the movement had planted the bomb.

Another roadside bomb in Kunar struck an Afghan army patrol and killed two soldiers and wounded five more, an official said.

In another incident, a suicide attacker detonated a car bomb near a coalition convoy in eastern Khost province, wounding three US soldiers, the coalition said.

Three students at a madressah were killed when a motorbike that was being rigged up as a bomb exploded, a provincial governor said.—AFP