WORLD BRIEFING / AFGHANISTAN
A bomb killed three U.S. soldiers in southern Afghanistan, hours after a suicide bomber killed 10 Afghan civilians and two Afghan policemen in a separate attack in the south, officials said.
The attacks bring the toll of U.S. soldiers killed in southern Afghanistan to five in less than 24 hours. The U.S. military is planning to send up to 30,000 extra troops to the south this year to try to stem the virulent Taliban insurgency.
The U.S. soldiers were killed when a bomb exploded in the Tarnak va Jaldak district of Zabol province, which borders Kandahar province, where two U.S. soldiers were killed Thursday, NATO said.
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