Bombs kill eight Afghan troops, hurt four Canadian soldiers

KABUL (AFP) - Eight Afghan soldiers were killed and four Canadian soldiers lightly hurt in a series of roadside bomb attacks in insurgency-hit
Afghanistan, government and military officials said.

Two Afghan soldiers were killed early Friday in a roadside bomb in the troubled Peche Valley on the border between Kunar and Nuristan provinces, spokesman General Mohammed Zahir Azimi said.

A convoy sent to their aid was hit by an explosive device at Watapor in Kunar and six more soldiers were killed, provincial governor Asadullah Wafa said on Friday.

"Seven other soldiers were wounded in the two blasts," the governor said.

It was not clear if the explosions were caused by landmines or remote-controlled bombs, Azimi said.

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