A soldier of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) died as a result of a "non-battle related injury" in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday.
A brief ISAF press release on the incident left ambiguity regarding how the soldier sustained the fatal injury.
ISAF did not disclose the nationality of the victims, and deferred "casualty identification procedures to the relevant national authorities."
It takes the number of ISAF soldiers killed in Afghanistan this year to 96, according to ICasualties.org, an independent website that monitors international troop casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Although NATO is committed to end its combat mission in 2014, ISAF troops continue to face terrorist attacks in various parts of the war-torn country in a lesser scale.
Earlier in the day, Taliban carried out a gun and bomb attack on the Kabul base of a logistics firm supplying NATO forces, killing seven people -- an Afghan security guard, two civilians and four Nepalese contractors.
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