Three British soldiers were killed in a suicide bombing in Helmand province. Afghan officials say the Taliban are coercing and forcing children to become suicide bombers. Taliban kidnappers abducted a Pakistani employee of an Afghan company in Kandahar province. A Canadian soldier died after he fell into an open well west of Kandahar City. Operation Embrace Islam, a US initiative in eastern Afghanistan, refurbished nearly 300 mosques around Paktika province.