KABUL — Ten NATO troops, including seven U.S. soldiers, were killed in Afghanistan on Monday in the deadliest day for coalition forces so far this year.
Five of the American service members were killed in a roadside bomb attack in eastern Afghanistan, according to U.S. military officials.
Two other U.S. soldiers were killed in the country’s south, one in a bombing and the other by small-arms fire.
No further information was available on the three soldiers from other countries who were killed Monday.
Also on Monday, an American contractor was killed during a suicide bomb attack on a police training center in Kandahar, where U.S. troops are planning a major offensive this summer to uproot Taliban insurgents from their longtime stronghold.
A militant in a Toyota Corolla sedan filled with explosives tried to breach the training center’s perimeter wall, while two other suicide bombers attempted to enter the compound on foot, said Sardar Mohammed Zazai, Kandahar’s police chief.
Afghan security forces fired at the attackers, who blew themselves up before they could get inside the facility, Zazai said. Three Afghan police officers also were wounded in the attack.
