<div class='node-body'><p>Three more foreign soldiers, reported to be US marines, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug/11/six-us-soldiers-killed-afghan" target="_blank">were killed</a> at a NATO base Friday night following a similar attack Friday morning, which also left three US soldiers dead in the same region. The day was the bloodiest single day for foreign troops in the southern Helmand province since six British soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb in early March.</p></div><div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-news-hp-image">
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