Five members of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) were killed by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, the ISAF said in a statement.
“Five International Security Assistance Force service members died following an improvised explosive device attack in southern Afghanistan today,” the coalition said in a statement issued in Kabul.
A NATO official said that all the soldiers killed were Americans.
The troops died in an improvised explosive device (IED) attack, NATO’s ISAF confirmed in a statement.
The attack came four days after three British soldiers were killed in a similar attack in the neighboring province of Helmand.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility but Taliban militants frequently use roadside bombs against U.S.-led foreign troops and their Afghan allies.