Bombs killed three NATO soldiers and a gunman shot dead a prominent local official in the South of the Afghanistan, where thousands of Afghan and international troops are cribbing for a resurgence of spring expected the attacks of the Taliban, officials said Sunday.
NATO said a troop died in an explosion Sunday and two others were killed by the explosion of a Saturday.
Earlier, the alliance said that a fourth died Saturday when a coalition helicopter crashed in the province of Kapisa Alasay district in the East.
He provided no details, or nationalities of those killed.
The death brought to 134 the number of NATO troops killed in Afghanistan this year.
The Afghanistan Spring fighting season should be fully in force at the end of this month or early May. Before defining in last winter, tens of thousands of American reinforcements and NATO routed the Taliban in their fortresses, captured the personalities and destroyed caches of weapons, particularly in East and South.
The militants, known for their resilience, responded by attacks of large across the country.
A gunman assassinated Abdul Zahir, Deputy of the Council of provincial peace in Helmand and former civilian head of Marjahdistrict top, late Saturday in the provincial capital of Lashkar Gah, the Interior Ministry said Sunday.
Zahir was also a member of the Council for the local improvement area and key members of the Alizai tribe.
The Taliban claim responsibility for the killing in a telephone call from the Associated Press.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai said that he was saddened by the death of Zahir, a man he describes as "a brave sons of this homeland."
Appointment of Zahir Marjah district at the beginning Chief last year became controversial when folders and reports in Germany showed that Zahir was used as a framework more four years imprisonment for news attempted manslaughter for stabbing his son in 1998.
A U.S. official confirmed that Zahir had a criminal record in Germany, but Zahir refused ever to spend time in a German prison.
His record was involved, because at the time, he was the man responsible for convincing the inhabitants of Marjah the central Afghan Government could better provide for them than the Taliban.
Afghan and coalition forces launched a major offensive in Marjah in February 2010 in the rout of the insurgents from their strongholds in Helmand.
Later, Zahir was named the face of a new local government, a key to the strategy of fight test against insurgencies of NATO.
NATO also confirmed Sunday that Afghan and coalition forces killed three leaders of the Haqqani network, a group of insurgents with close ties to al-Qaeda that operates primarily in the provinces of Paktika, Paktia and Khost. So far this year, more than 15 leaders Haqqani and over 130 other insurgents affiliated with the network have been captured or killed.
More than 90 prisoners were taken in Khost province, where the three is died Friday.
Among those killed was Salih Khan, a leader of Haqqani in Nadir Shah Kot district. According to the coalition, he formed the bomb, orchestrated car bomb attacks and handled logistics and communications for the insurgents in the region.
In the past week, led Khan 20 fighters in two attacks on the coalition of advanced base operations, said coalition.
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