Two Nato service members and five Afghan soldiers have been killed by roadside bombs in separate incidents in the country’s south and east, the alliance and Afghan authorities said yesterday.

Nato said in a statement that its two service members were killed by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan. It did not provide any further details or their nationalities.

In Kabul, the Defence Ministry announced that a roadside bomb in eastern Khost province killed five Afghan soldiers on Wednesday. The ministry gave no other details.

The Nato deaths bring the total in September for international forces to seven. A total of 330 members of the international military coalition have died so far this year.

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