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KABUL — Two U.S. service members were killed in a roadside bombing in southern Afghanistan, where thousands of American troops have been deployed to wrest back control of insurgent strongholds.
Also in the south, gunmen kidnapped five Health Ministry employees in Kandahar province while insurgents killed a district official elsewhere, reportedly on the orders of the Taliban supreme leader, officials said Thursday.
The kidnappers of the health workers — two doctors, a nurse, a pharmacist and their driver — were not identified, but Taliban insurgents have been on a spree of assassinations and abductions of government workers.
