A rocket struck the Netherlands' main base in southern Afghanistan, killing a Dutch soldier and wounding five others, officials said Tuesday. U.S.-led coalition troops killed four militants in the same region. Insurgents fired four rockets at the base in the southern Uruzgan on Monday, and two of them caused casualties, said Gen. Peter van Uhm, the Dutch defense chief. Coalition troops, meanwhile, killed four suspected Taliban militants and detained two others following a raid on a bomb-making cell in neighboring Kandahar province Monday, the U.S.-led coalition said in a statement quoted by Associated Press. The four men were killed «during the engagement» after they attempted to barricade themselves inside a compound in Maywand district, the statement said.
