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KABUL-Seventeen Afghan road workers were killed in an insurgent attack in the southern Afghan province of Zabul on Tuesday, the Interior Ministry said.The Taliban have vowed to step up their war to expel foreign troops and bring down the Western-backed government and intermittent fighting has been picking up in recent days after a traditional winter lull. "Seventeen engineers and road workers were killed in an attack by enemies of Afghanistan's stability," said ministry spokesman Zemarai Bashary. All the victims were Afghan, he said.Sixteen workers were wounded, he said, adding he did not know the name of their company. He did not elaborate on the identity of the attackers but Taliban operate in the province, which borders Pakistan."Police, national army and coalition forces rushed to the site and killed seven enemies," Bashary said.Taliban rebels regularly attack infrastructure projects in their efforts to undermine the government and its aid donors who are struggling to develop the impoverished country.A soldier from Afghanistan's NATO-led force was killed in a blast in Ghazni province to the southwest of Kabul, the force said. One soldier was wounded. The force did not give their nationalities.Also on Tuesday, the government said it had no information on whether a wanted guerrilla leader was in a village hit by a U.S.-led air strike in the east of the country on Sunday.
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