IED blast kills NATO soldier in S Afghanistan

A soldier with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) was killed Wednesday in an Improvised Explosive Device(IED) strike in south Afghanistan, bringing the number of the alliance casualties to two in a single day, the military alliance said in a press release. "An International Security Assistance Force service member died following an improvised explosive device attack in southern Afghanistan Wednesday," ISAF said in the brief press release.

The nationality of the victim and location of the incident had not been revealed in the press release, adding it is ISAF policy to defer casualty identification procedures to the relevant national authorities.

Earlier, the alliance in a statement confirmed losing another soldier in an insurgent attack in the relatively peaceful northern region of Afghanistan on the same day Wednesday.

More than 600 NATO soldiers with majority of them Americans have been killed so far this year in Afghanistan.

Source: Xinhua