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2 American servicemen killed in Afghanistan

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Three international troops, two of them American, were reported killed and the bodies of 11 other men were found today in rising violence across Afghanistan.

Mohammad Khan, deputy police chief in Uruzgan province, said a villager in the Bagh Char area of Khas Uruzgan district spotted the bodies in a field and called police.

"They were killed because the Taliban said they were spying for the government, working for the government," he said.

Meanwhile, NATO reported that a U.S. service member was killed in an insurgent attack today in eastern Afghanistan and another American died following a roadside bombing in southern Afghanistan on Thursday. NATO did not provide the exact location of the attacks.

A third service member died in an explosion today in southern Afghanistan, NATO said without releasing the nationality.

Their deaths brought to 83 the number of international service members killed so far in June, which is already the deadliest month of the nearly 9-year-old war. At least 48 were Americans.

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