Taliban ambush kills 3 US soldiers-Afghan official

ASADABAD, Afghanistan, Aug 27 (Reuters) Three US and two Afghan soldiers were killed in a Taliban ambush today in Afghanistan's eastern provice of Kunar, a provincial police official said.

The incident happened in Ghazi Abad district near the border with Pakistan, police chief of the district told reporters. ''There was a Taliban ambush in which three U.S. and two Afghan soldiers were killed today,'' he said.

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