Roadside bomb kills two Polish soldiers in Afghanistan

Kabul: A roadside bomb blast killed two Polish soldiers in eastern Afghanistan, officials said Wednesday.

NATO also announced the seizure of US$400 million worth of opium in the south, and at least 15 other people were killed in violence across the country.

The explosion hit the Polish troops in the Sharan district of Paktika province on Tuesday, said NATO's International Security Assistance Force, under which the Polish soldiers were serving.

The soldiers were returning from a humanitarian aid meeting in a village when their Humvee drove over a roadside mine, Maj. Dariusz Kacperczyk, spokesman for the Polish army operational command, said in Warsaw.

The two soldiers were identified as Captain Szymon Slowik and Private Hubert Kowalewski. One soldier was also wounded. Poland has about 1,200 troops in Afghanistan.