U.S. soldier's body found in Afghanistan

KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 11 (UPI) -- A military dive team found the body of one of two U.S. soldiers who disappeared last week in northwest Afghanistan, a NATO spokesman said Wednesday.

The two men went missing while trying to recover supplies that fell into a river in Badghis province Nov. 4, The New York Times reported.

Taliban attacks hampered rescue efforts by a joint Afghan-U.S. rescue mission, several media outlets reported.

The Afghan Defense Ministry reported a U.S.-called airstrike Friday killed at least seven Afghan soldiers and police and one civilian. NATO officials did not confirm whether an airstrike was responsible for the deaths but said it is investigating.

After the airstrike, local elders said the Taliban promised not to attack the search party, the Times said.

Also on Wednesday, a suicide bomber riding on a motorcycle targeted a NATO convoy as it moved through a bazaar in Shahjuy, a town on a main route between Kandahar and Kabul, killing a woman and injuring three civilians and two NATO soldiers, said Gulab Shah Alikhail, deputy governor of Zabul province.