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Warsaw (AFP) July 27, 2010 Seven Polish soldiers were wounded in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday when a roadside bomb blew up as their armoured vehicle passed, the Polish defence ministry said. "In the south of the province of Ghazni, the rebels attacked a Polish patrol with an explosive device planted on the side of the road," the ministry said in a statement. The soldiers were evacuated by helicopter to a hospital at a base in Ghazni. Two were in serious but stable condition. Poland has 2,500 troops in the international force battling the Taliban in Afghanistan and is due to raise their number to 2,600 by the end of the year. Nineteen Polish soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan since Poland first sent troops there in March 2002, including three since June 12.
related report The search for a second sailor was continuing in Logar province, south of Kabul, after the pair went missing last week, NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said. "Afghan and coalition forces recovered the remains of a missing ISAF service member Sunday in eastern Afghanistan after an extensive search," it said. "Afghan and coalition forces launched an extensive search-and-recovery operation when two service members failed to report to their destination Friday," it said. "ISAF holds the captors accountable for the safety and proper treatment of our missing service member." The two US Navy sailors went missing late Friday after leaving a military compound in Kabul, ISAF officials said earlier. The Taliban, which is active in Logar, said Sunday its fighters had ambushed the pair, killing one and taking the other capitve. ISAF launched an extensive road and air search in the area, searching compounds of what it said were known insurgents. Kidnappings of foreign soldiers are rare in Afghanistan, where a nine-year insurgency has been escalating, particularly in the southern provinces of Helmand and Kandahar. Most kidnappings in recent years have been by criminals for ransom, though targets identified as high value have in the past been sold on to insurgent groups, who then use them as political pawns. The Taliban warned earlier this year they would target foreign military and government installations and staff, as well as Afghans working for them or for the Kabul government. A 24-year-old US soldier, Bowe Bergdahl, who disappeared on June 30, 2009 is believed to have been the first American snatched by militants in Afghanistan. Bergdahl's captors have released at least two videos showing him to be alive, most recently in April.
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