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Blast kills Afghan interpreter, injures five Swedish soldiers
Nov 11, 2009, 12:56 GMT
Stockholm - An Afghan interpreter was killed and five Swedish soldiers wounded by a roadside bomb in northern Afghanistan on Wednesday, the Swedish military said.
The blast targeted the armoured vehicle the group was travelling in, some 40 kilometres west of Mazar-e-Sharif, where the Swedish and Finnish contingent of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) is based.
The five soldiers were taken to a German-run field hospital, but the military had no immediate details of their injuries.
Sweden has 430 troops in northern Afghanistan.
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