NATO has announced the death of an eighth soldier in a day of concentrated violence in war-torn Afghanistan.


NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said in a statement on Tuesday that an eighth soldier was killed on Monday in a bomb attack in southern Afghanistan.

The soldier was killed in a day that seven US troops lost their lives in two separate bomb attacks in the south.

ISAF did not reveal the nationality of the troop.

The death brings the number of US-led troops killed in Afghanistan so far in 2010 to 480. Among the dead 315 are Americans.

According to a previous AFP tally, a total of 521 foreign soldiers were killed in Afghanistan in 2009.

Based on official figures, more than 2,000 US-led soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan since the start of the war in 2001.

The rising casualties of the US-led forces have increased opposition to the Afghan war in the US and other countries contributing troops to the mission.

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