Four US soldiers have been killed in a Taliban-style bomb attack in Afghanistan, NATO said, bringing the toll of Americans to 21 dead since Friday.
NATO spokesman James Judge confirmed to AFP that four American soldiers were killed in eastern Afghanistan by an improvised explosive devise (IED), one of the main weapons deployed by Taliban-led insurgents.
The deaths bring to 484 the total number of foreign troops killed in the Afghan war this year, compared to 521 for all of 2009, according to an AFP tally based on that kept by the independent icasualties.org website.
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The deaths come a day after eight NATO troops -- seven of them American -- were killed in similar bomb attacks in southern Afghanistan.
The eighth soldier to die on Monday was not American, ISAF said.
The Canadian military said one of its troopers died Monday in a German hospital of injuries sustained in a bomb attack on August 22.
Makeshift bombs are responsible for most of the military deaths in Afghanistan, deployed by insurgents, made from fertiliser and detonated by pressure or remote control.
The United States and NATO have almost 150,000 troops in Afghanistan fighting the Taliban-led insurgency, most of them in the southern hotspots of Helmand and Kandahar provinces.
