KABUL (AFP) — Two NATO soldiers were killed in separate incidents in southern Afghanistan, the alliance's International Security Assistance Force said.
One was killed by "enemy hostile action" and the other died in a bomb blast, ISAF said in a statement that gave no further details.
The 40-nation force does not release the nationalities of its casualties before this is made known by their home nations.
The British government said later that one of its soldiers had been killed in an explosion in southern Afghanistan.
The soldier was taking part in a routine foot patrol in Musa Qala, Helmand province, earlier Monday when he was caught in an explosion, the Ministry of Defence said, without saying if it was the same incident reported by ISAF.
Around 7,800 British troops are deployed in southern Afghanistan following the 2001 US-led assault which drove the hardline Taliban from power.
The deaths took to 56 the number of foreign troops killed in Afghanistan this year. Most died in hostile action.
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