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FACTBOX-Security developments in Afghanistan, Jan 7

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Friday, 7 January 2011 13:01 GMT

Jan 7 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Afghanistan at 1300 GMT on Friday.

KANDAHAR - A suicide bomber killed 17 people, including a police commander, and wounded 21, inside a public bathhouse in southern Kandahar province, officials said, in what was the worst attack in the country in more than five months. [ID:nSGE706060]

KABUL - The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said three of its troops were killed in two separate bomb attacks. One was killed in the southern Afghanistan and two in the east, it said, without giving further details. (Compiled by Jonathon Burch; Editing by Nick Macfie) (For more Reuters coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan, see: http://www.reuters.com/news/globalcoverage/afghanistanpakistan) (If you have a query or comment on this story, send an email to newsfeedback.asia@thomsonreuters.com)

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