Coalition service member killed in southern Afghanistan

April 30th, 2010 - 1:52 am ICT by BNO News  

KABUL (BNO NEWS) — A coalition service member was killed in an attack in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, the NATO-led ISAF alliance said.

The alliance said the service member - whose nationality was not immediately released - died of injuries sustained in an improvised explosive device (IED) strike in southern Afghanistan. Further details were not immediately released.

The casualty brings the number of coalition troops killed in Afghanistan so far this year to 162, according to a BNO News count based on official figures. At least 98 of those killed were from the United States.

On Thursday, Lance Cpl. Thomas E. Rivers Jr. of Birmingham, Alabama was killed as a result of an IED attack in Afghanistan’s Helmand province.

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