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FACTBOX-Security developments in Afghanistan, Feb 8

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Tuesday, 8 February 2011 13:45 GMT

Feb 8 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Afghanistan at 1330 GMT on Tuesday.

* indicates new or updated items.

* KABUL - A service member from the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) was killed by a homemade bomb in southern Afghanistan, ISAF said in a statement. It gave no further details.

* JALALABAD - One person was killed and nine wounded in two separate homemade bomb blasts in the eastern city of Jalalabad, a spokesman for the governor of Nangarhar province said.

* KABUL - A magnetic mine attached to a police car exploded in the west of the capital Kabul but there were no casualties, police said.

KABUL - An ISAF service member was killed by a homemade bomb in southern Afghanistan, the coalition said. It gave no further details.

(Compiled by Kabul bureau; Editing by Paul Tait)

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