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Factbox - Security developments in Afghanistan, 28 Dec 2008

Dec 28 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Afghanistan reported until 0850 GMT on Sunday.

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*KHOST - A suicide bomber killed at least six people, four of them children, and wounded 36 more in an attack on a government building in southeastern Khost province on Sunday, officials said.

*KABUL - A rocket hit a residential area of the capital Kabul, killing three teenage girls on Saturday, a police official said. Four more were wounded in the attack, the government said.

SOUTHERN AFGHANISTAN - Two NATO-led force soldiers were killed in an attack on Saturday in a southern area, the alliance said without giving further details.

Canadian press said the soldiers were Canadians operating in the volatile Kandahar province, adding an Afghan police officer and translator were also killed in the incident.

PAKTIKA - U.S.-led coalition forces killed one militant and detained six others during an operation targeting a wanted Taliban commander's network in Paktika province some 175 km (110) miles south of Kabul on Saturday, the military said.

KABUL - U.S.-led coalition forces killed four militants known as facilitators for foreign fighters in an operation in Sorobi district some 50 km (30) miles east of Kabul on Saturday, a U.S. military statement said.

(Compiled by Hamid Shalizi, Editing by Valerie Lee)