Awwal 18, 1432 H / April 22, 2011, SPA -- A roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan has killed five Afghan border policemen while an insurgent attack elsewhere in the country left one NATO service member dead, as AP reported. Gen. Abdul Raziq, chief of the Afghan border police in Kandahar province, says one other border policeman was wounded in the blast on Thursday night in Spin Boldak district along the Pakistan border. The NATO service member was killed Thursday in the east, following an insurgent attack. So far this year, 128 coalition troops have died in Afghanistan. In the north, militants attacked a coalition fuel convoy Thursday night in Dushi district of Baghlan province. The governor's office says two tankers were burned and seven others were damaged.
