KABUL: Bombs and bullets killed seven American troops while three NATO troops died in a helicopter crash in one of the deadliest days for foreign troops in Afghanistan since the U.S.-led invasion in 2001, officials said Tuesday.
Four of the deaths Monday came in an attack on a team of U.S. military trainers in the relatively peaceful north, Navy Chief Petty Officer Brian Naranjo, a U.S. military spokesman.
Two Americans were killed in a roadside blast in southern Afghanistan, Naranjo said.
Another American soldier died of wounds in a Monday firefight with militants in the east, a U.S. military spokesman said. Also in the south, two Canadian and a Briton serving with the NATO-led force were killed Monday when their helicopter crashed in Zabul province, said a spokesman for the military alliance, Lt.Commander Chris Hall. The incident was not caused by insurgent fire, Hall said.
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