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Wednesday, June 09, 2010 By Victoria Turner
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On Monday, June 7th attacks across Kabul, Afghanistan, were the deadliest day for coalition forces this year. The attacks killed ten Allied troops including seven Americans. Two Australians were killed by a blast during patrol in the Mirabad Valley of southern Afghanistan. They were the first Australian service personnel killed in Afghanistan in nearly a year. The exact locations were not immediately released. NATO's International Security Assistance Force confirmed that seven were Americans. The nationality of one of the troops is still unknown. The U.S. Embassy in Kabul said an American citizen and another person died in an attack at a police training center in Kandahar. The Afghan Interior Ministry said the three suicide attackers who assaulted the police training center were killed. One driving a Toyota Corolla; struck the police training center tower and two suicide attackers who attempted to enter the center, detonated themselves at the facility's gate. In eastern Afghanistan, an improvised explosive device killed five NATO troops. In a separate operation, a service member was killed by small firearms in eastern Afghanistan, and another was killed by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan.
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