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FACTBOX-Security developments in Afghanistan, April 11

11 Apr 2010 18:53:25 GMT

April 11 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Afghanistan at 1730 GMT on Sunday:

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KANDAHAR - Four Afghan deminers were killed and 18 others were wounded by a homemade bomb on Saturday in Daman district of southern Kandahar province, said Mohd Ibrahim, a doctor at the main hospital in the province said.

* KUNDUZ - Three Afghan soldiers were killed during a clash with Taliban insurgents in an area of northern Kunduz province overnight, the Defence Ministry said on Sunday.

* KUNDUZ - President Hamid Karzai cancelled a planned meeting with the German troops of the NATO-led force after rockets landed outside the troops' base in Kunduz on Sunday, an officer for the troops said.

* SOUTHERN AFGHANISTAN - Two service members from the NATO-led force were killed by homemade bombs in separate incidents in the south of the country, the alliance said.

* GHAZNI - An Afghan army soldier opened fire on NATO-led troops, slightly wounding one of them on Saturday in Ghazni province to the southwest of Kabul, an alliance official said.

* BADAKHSHAN - Afghan Taliban ambushed a convoy carrying provincial police officials of northeastern Badakhshan late on Saturday, wounding a district police chief and killing one of his body guards, an official said on Sunday. (Compiled by Jonathon Burch, Peter Graff and Sayed Salahuddin; Editing by Raju Gopalakrishnan) (For more Reuters coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan, see: http://www.reuters.com/news/globalcoverage/afghanistanpakistan)