Nato service members killed in Afghanistan

Nato says two service members have died in separate attacks in southern Afghanistan.

The alliance says one service member died following an insurgent attack on Saturday while the second was killed by a bomb on Sunday.

Nato statements say they both died in the south of the country.

The statements did not provide further details on the attacks or the nationalities of the killed service members.

The deaths raise the number of international troops killed in September to 23. A total of 428 members of the international military coalition have died so far this year.

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