International soldier, Afghan judge killed

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KABUL (AFP) — A US-led coalition soldier was killed in a bomb attack in Kabul on Sunday and a judge was gunned down in southern Afghanistan, authorities said, in new attacks linked to an extremist insurgency.

Another soldier was wounded in the bomb blast on the southeastern outskirts of the capital, the coalition said in a statement.

"A coalition service member was killed and another wounded when their convoy struck an IED (improvised explosive device) this morning in Kabul," it said.

It did not release the nationalities of the soldiers. Most troops in the coalition are from the United States, which has about 32,000 soldiers in Afghanistan to help fight extremist militants, mainly Taliban.

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