3 NATO Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan

In this image made available in London by the Ministry of Defence, a CH-47 Chinook helicopter of B Flight, 27 Squadron of the Royal Air Force, operating out of Camp Bastion 'pops' a series of flares designed to counteract heat-seeking missiles during an operation in support of British troops over Afghanistan's Helmand province, Thursday Aug. 3, 2006.(AP Photo/Corporal Rob Knight, Ministry of Defence ho) (Corporal Rob Knight - AP)

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- Taliban fighters killed three NATO soldiers in an attack in southern Afghanistan Thursday, a NATO spokesman said. The insurgents attacked the soldiers with rocket-propelled grenades near a school on the outskirts of the city of Kandahar, a NATO statement said.

Six soldiers were injured, but their wounds were not life-threatening, it said.

The statement did not identify the soldiers' nationalities.

A Canadian soldier from the NATO force was killed and four were wounded in roadside bombings near Kandahar Thursday.

NATO took over command of insurgency-wracked southern Afghanistan from the U.S.-led coalition Monday.