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Five NATO soldiers killed in Afghanistan were Americans: report

11 August 2011 18:26 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. Five NATO soldiers who were killed Thursday in southern Afghanistan were all Americans, local media quoted Pentagon sources as saying, APA reports quoting Xinhua.

The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Kabul said in a statement earlier Thursday that five ISAF service members died following an improvised explosive device attack in southern Afghanistan. But it did not identify the nationalities of the victims.

The incident comes less than a week after American forces suffered its largest single-day loss in Afghanistan since the war began nearly ten years ago.

Thirty U.S. troops were killed when a CH-47 Chinook helicopter was shot down by a Taliban rocket propelled grenade on Saturday, many of whom were of the secretive Navy SEALs special force. Seven Afghan commandos and an Afghan interpreter were also killed.