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Second U.S. service member killed in Afghanistan this year

Xinhua, August 23, 2016 Adjust font size:

The Pentagon announced Tuesday a U.S. soldier was killed by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan, the second U.S. military casualty in Afghanistan this year.

The latest attack took place in Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand Province, when U.S. troops were accompanying Afghan soldiers, the Pentagon said in a statement, adding that six Afghan soldiers were also wounded.

In January, a U.S. service member was killed in Helmand Province, a restive part of the country known as the birthplace of the Taliban.

In the statement, the Pentagon expressed its deepest sympathies to the families and friends of those involved.

The attack came one day after the NATO-led mission announced that around 100 U.S. troops had been dispatched to Lashkar Gah in the wake of the Taliban's recent seizure of nearby areas. Endi