Three NATO soldiers died after being wounded in a bomb blast that appeared to target the US Bagram military base in Afghanistan, military officials said on Wednesday.
"Three International Security Assistance Force soldiers died of wounds suffered in an improvised explosive device attack in southern Afghanistan yesterday," the military said in a statement.Two explosions, including a suspected suicide bombing, took place outside the main gate of the military base, located about 60 kilometres north of the capital Kabul.NATO did not disclose the identities of the dead soldiers or the exact location of the attack, but some media reports said the soldiers were all Canadian.Afghanistan has been hard hit by a rise in violence by a resurgent Taliban. The latest deaths take the total of international soldiers killed in Afghanistan this year to 52.US president Barack Obama recently announced plans to deploy a further 17,000 military personnel to Afghanistan.In a statement released by the White House in February, President Obama said "the situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan demands urgent attention".Military advisers to the president have made it clear that the situation in Afghanistan is destabilising quickly.According to a report from the United Nations, the number of civilian deaths increased by 39 percent in 2008.
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