5 NATO-led troops killed in east

KABUL) said.

The deaths were announced in a brief statement from the NATO-led force that neither revealed nationalities of the fallen soldiers nor the exact location of the bomb attack.

A day earlier, an ISAF servicemember died in a similar assault in the same region, the multinational alliance said. Most of the forces in the east are American, but troops from other NATO countries also serving in the region.

The fresh fatalities bring to 177 the number of NATO-led soldiers killed in Afghanistan so far in 2011, Last year, 711 international soldiers died in the country.

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