Afghan officers check the site of a suicide attack in Kabul, capital of Afghanistan, June 16, 2007. A suicide car bomber exploded near a NATO convoy in Kabul on Saturday, killing at least four civilians and injuring four others.(Xinhua Photo)

    KABUL, June 17 (Xinhua) -- A roadside bombing killed three soldiers of the U.S.-led coalition forces and an Afghan interpreter in Kandahar province of southern Afghanistan on Sunday afternoon, a coalition statement said.

    The casualties occurred at around 1:30 p.m. (0900 GMT) when a roadside bomb exploded near a coalition vehicle, the statement said.

    The names and nationalities of the killed coalition personnel are being withheld pending notification of next of kin, but the majority of coalition soldiers operating in this country are Americans.

    The brief statement did not give any other information.

    Afghanistan has suffered more rampant violence and insurgency over the past few weeks. A bombing blast killed 35 people, most of whom were police officers, and injured 35 others in Kabul on Sunday morning.

    A coalition soldier was killed by militants in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, while another one was killed on Friday morning in eastern Afghanistan.

    About 13,000 coalition forces are being deployed in Afghanistan to hunt down militants and keep security.

    Due to rising Taliban-linked insurgency, over 2,100 persons, among whom were more than 80 international soldiers, have been killed in Afghanistan this year.