US troops killed in Afghan prison
Prisoner kills two Marines after escaping from prayer room and grabbing rifle.
The latest deaths bring the overall number of foreign troops killed in Afghanistan this year to 426, compared to 520 for all of 2009, according a tally kept by icasualties.org, an independent monitoring group.
Posts attacked
Elsewhere, seven suspected fighters were killed and five people were wounded, including four US soldiers, when anti-government fighters attacked three Nato combat posts on Monday, Nato said.
The attack happened in the rural province of Paktika, which shares a long, porous border with Pakistan and is seen as a hotbed of Taliban activity.
“The attack … [lasted] for four hours,” US Air Force Master Sergeant Lori Mills said.
“Seven enemy, among them suicide attackers, tried to attack three Afghan and coalition posts,” she said.