Roadside bomb kills 2 soldiers in Afghanistan

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JALALABAD, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A roadside bomb killed two soldiers from the U.S.-led coalition forces in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, according to a U.S. military spokeswoman.

A Taliban spokesman claimed responsibility for the attack in a telephone call to a Reuters correspondent in the provincial capital of Jalalabad.

"Two coalition soldiers were killed when their vehicle struck a roadside bomb in Nangahar province," a spokeswoman for the U.S. military in Kabul told Reuters.

Another soldier was wounded along with an Afghan traveling with them in a Humvee, while out on patrol in Khogyani district of Nangahar province.

"Their vehicle was completely destroyed, I can still see smoke rising from the wreck," Qari Ismatullah, a resident of Khogyani, told Reuters.

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1. Roadside bomb

Is it me or are the Afghan insurgents taking a few lessons from their Iraqi counterparts?