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NATO kills 55 Taliban, bomber kills 15

URGUN, Afghanistan, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- NATO forces killed 55 Taliban fighters in southern Afghanistan, NATO said Sunday, while a suicide bomb killed 15 Afghans in another province.

The suicide bomber blew himself up in a hotel restaurant in the remote town of Urgun in Paktika Province in southeast Afghanistan, bordering Pakistan.

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Most of the casualties were soldiers with a militia hired by the U.S. military to assist with patrols and searches, state-run Pakistan Television reported.

The commander of the militia and the governor of an adjoining district were among the 25 others wounded in the attack.

Separately, a NATO soldier was killed in NATO-Taliban fighting near Tarin Kowt, the capital of the central-southern Uruzgan Province, after a large number of insurgents attacked NATO troops, the alliance said.

NATO troops returned fire and called in an airstrike, NATO said.

The military did not release the nationalities of its casualties, but Dutch and Australian soldiers patrol Uruzgan.

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