Roadside bomb kills US soldier in Afghanistan

A roadside bomb attack in the southern Afghan province of Helmand has killed a US soldier and left another injured.

The US-led NATO forces in Afghanistan said the casualties took place on Tuesday when a US military patrol was struck by a roadside bomb in the provincial capital city of Lashkar Gah.

The incident also left six Afghan security forces wounded.

US military officials claimed that their soldier was killed during operations carried out against the Taliban militants.

The attack came a day after US officials announced that 100 American troops had been sent to the volatile region to help prevent the city from falling to the militant group.

This marks the first major American deployment to southern Afghanistan since foreign forces withdrew from there in 2014.

The Taliban has seized a number of districts in Helmand, Baghlan and Takhar provinces in the past weeks.

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