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By Kiko Itasaka and Matthew DeLuca, NBC News
Five United States troops were killed Saturday by an attack involving an improvised explosive device, the NATO-led security force in the country said.
The troops were in southern Afghanistan when they were attacked, the International Security Assistance Force said in a statement.
Nineteen American personnel have died over the past week, including a series of air crashes and the bombing on Saturday. Seven people died when a U.S. civilian cargo plain crashed and exploded shortly after takeoff from Bagram Airfield outside Kabul earlier in the week.
Kandahar governor's spokesperson Jawed Faizel says there was a large roadside bomb that exploded on Saturday, killing the five U.S. soldiers.
The Taliban did not immediately claim responsibility for this incident.
