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KHOST, Afghanistan (Reuters) -- At least two Afghans and a U.S. soldier were killed and 15 people wounded on Friday in separate incidents in Afghanistan, police and the U.S. military said.

The U.S. central command said a U.S. soldier was killed and nine others wounded by a mine near Ghazni. The incident was under investigation and no further details were available.

In Khost, at least two Afghans were killed and six wounded in an explosion at a government military post near the former Taliban stronghold in southeastern Afghanistan, police said.

The blast came hours after more than 20 rockets landed near Khost's airport, where U.S.-led forces are based, they said.

It was the biggest single rocket attack since the fall of the Taliban in late 2001, but U.S. military spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Bryan Hilferty reported no casualties.

"There were no coalition casualties," he said in a statement.

Coalition forces returned fire with artillery and precision-guided bombs but "at this time there is no indication of anti-coalition militia casualties," Hilferty said.

The attacks in Khost are the latest in a wave of incidents which more than 550 people have been killed in the last six months, mostly in southern and eastern Afghanistan where the Taliban militia remnants are most active.

The incidents came two days after Khost's deputy intelligence chief was shot dead by a suspected Taliban militant who then blew himself up to avoid being arrested.

Khost used to be part of the heartland of the Taliban, overthrown by U.S.-led troops for harboring Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda network.

U.S. soldiers in Khost, part of the 10,600-strong American-led force hunting al Qaeda and remnants of the Taliban, regularly come under rocket attacks and ambushes, most of which are ineffective.



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