A U.S. paratrooper and a British peacekeeper were killed in separate attacks in eastern and northern Afghanistan on Saturday and five British peacekeepers were wounded, officials in London and Kabul said, according to Reuters. The U.S. soldier died after his patrol came under small arms and rocket grenade fire at Lwara, near eastern Afghanistan's border with Pakistan, a U.S. military statement said. The British soldiers were shot by four men armed with assault rifles in the middle of the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif, said Imamuddin, a senior police official in the city. He said three of the attackers had been arrested. A spokesman for the Ministry of Defence in London confirmed later that a soldier had died. He said the men were attacked while travelling between two bases but did not give out any further details.
