KABUL (Reuters) - A roadside bomb killed two soldiers from the U.S.-led coalition in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar, a U.S. military statement said.
Taliban insurgents planted hundreds of roadside bombs in2007, contributing to a record year of violence that killedmore than 6,000 people, nearly 2,000 of them civilians.
"Coalition forces, along with Afghan National SecurityForces, were conducting a security patrol in the ZharmiDistrict, when their vehicle struck a mine placed on afrequently travelled road", said the statement, issued late onSaturday.
More than 200 foreign troops were killed in Afghanistan in2007 while nearly 30 troops from the U.S.-led coalition andNATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) havebeen killed since so far this year.
(Writing by Hamid Shalizi; Editing by David Fox)
