Three soldiers with the US-led coalition in Afghanistan were wounded when their vehicle ran over a mine in the country's south-west amid a "spike of violence", a US military official said Monday.
The three soldiers with the United States 10th Mountain Division battalion were wounded Saturday west of Ghazni by a home-made bomb as they were patrolling, Lieutenant Colonel Bryan Hilferty told a news conference in Kabul.
"We placed under custody three males - including one found cowering in an outhouse and another discovered hiding under a burqa (the all-enveloping garment women wear in Afghanistan)," the colonel said.