KABUL, Afghanistan — A packed bus hit a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday killing 25 people aboard, as NATO announced another U.S. serviceman died in a rapidly rising monthly death toll.
The passenger bus was traveling in Nimroz province on a main highway toward Kabul, when it struck the explosive, said Nazir Ahmad, a provincial government spokesman. Another 20 people were wounded, he said.
Meanwhile, NATO forces said a U.S. serviceman was killed in an insurgent attack in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, without giving further details. A NATO drone also went down in a Taliban-held area of northern Afghanistan because of mechanical problems, the alliance said in a statement. The craft, called a Luna UAV, contained no weapons or intelligence that could be exploited by enemy forces, NATO said.
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