A soldier of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) was killed and two were injured in an explosion during a patrol in southern Afghanistan Thursday, the ISAF said.
"The wounded soldiers were transported to an ISAF hospital where they are being treated," said a statement issued by the ISAF.
The military did not identify the exact time and place the blast occurred.
Without identifying the nationalities of the killed and injured, the statement said, "In accordance with ISAF policy, ISAF does not release the casualty's nationality prior to the relevant national authority doing so."
An over 41,000-strong multi-national force under the flag of NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) are deployed in war-torn Afghanistan, assisting in Afghan government's anti-militants and reconstruction efforts.
Rising militancy-related violence killed over 6,000 people in the post-Taliban nation last year and analysts and NATO commanders have expected an upsurge of guerrilla-style attacks by militants in 2008.
Source:Xinhua
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