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Six Foreign Soldiers Killed By Taliban Bomb In Afghanistan

Six NATO soldiers, including US troops, have been killed and three others injured by a suicide vehicle bomb attack in eastern Afghanistan whilst on patrol, NATO says.

The alliance, which leads the international force in the country, did not give the nationalities of the victims killed near a US base at Bagram - its biggest military facility in Afghanistan.

The Ministry of Defence in London has confirmed none were British, however.

The US embassy says an American citizen has been killed in Kabul in a separate incident, meanwhile.

It comes after the Taliban laid seige to the police headquarters in Helmand province, with officials warning that the whole of the southern province could fall.

The police chief in Sangin warned on Sunday that his was the only building not over-run and that his men were short of supplies.

He added that his officers had been surrounded, and risked being "captured alive".

Afghanistan’s government is now promising immediate action to save the town, which 106 British troops died defending between 2006 and 2010.

Large areas of Helmand province, a key area of opium cultivation, are now held by the Taliban, with fierce clashes having taken place in recent months.

More than 450 UK military personnel died on the 13-year Operation Herrick, including over 100 in Sangin, before combat operations came to an end last year.

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