Story filed: 19:25 Thursday 29th January 2004, Ananova
The US says seven of its soldiers were killed, one is missing and three were injured in an explosion at an arms cache in Afghanistan. An Afghan interpreter was also injured in the mid-afternoon blast near the city of Ghazni, 60 miles southwest of the capital, Kabul. The explosion happened as the soldiers were working around the weapons cache. The wounded soldiers were evacuated to a hospital at Bagram Air Base, headquarters for US-led coalition in Afghanistan. It isn't yet clear whether the explosion was an accident or triggered deliberately.
Earlier this month, the US death toll in the two-year war in Afghanistan reached 100. Only 16 Americans died in the lightning war that drove the Taliban from power at the end of 2001.
