ROME - Two Italian soldiers were killed and four others wounded when their military convoy was hit by a road bomb in Kabul on Friday, the ANSA news agency reported here, citing military sources in the Afghan capital.
The six soldiers were travelling in two armoured vehicles in the southeastern part of Kabul when they were hit by the explosion, the agency said, quoting the Italian contingent's command in Afghanistan. Two died of their wounds shortly afterwards.
Italy has nearly 2,000 troops deployed in Afghanistan as part of the ISAF peacekeeping force, of which NATO took command in 2003.
05/05/2006 14:53 GMT