Many dead in Afghan fighting

Two Canadian soldiers were killed on Wednesday in a bomb attack in southern Afghanistan while Nato leaders met in Canada to ask for more resources for their fight in the south.

For their part, fighters from Taliban said they destroyed four military vehicles of Nato forces in Helmand and Kandahar provinces on Wednesday and confiscated a vehicle in Musa Qala.

In a separate development, in northeastern Afghanistan, bodies of hundreds of Afghan civilians presumably killed during communist rule have been uncovered in a mass grave, officials and witnesses said on Thursday.

Taliban ambush

In Wednesday's clash, according to Ali Kheil, a spokesman for the governor of Zabul province, Afghan security forces were ambushed and they battled Taliban fighters for about an hour in the Shahjoy district before an air strike was called in against Taliban positions.

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