SYDNEY, Jan 5, SPA -- An Australian soldier was killedin Afghanistan during a Taliban rocket attack, AP quoted sources of the DefenseDepartment as saying Monday. The soldier was killed instantly Sunday when aTaliban-fired rocket exploded in a compound in the southernprovince of Uruzgan where a group of Australian troops wasstationed, Defense Force Air Chief Marshal Angus Houstontold reporters in Canberra. No other soldiers or civilianswere injured in the attack, he said. The Defense Department declined to release the soldier'sidentity, but said he had been in Afghanistan for severalweeks and was a third of the way through his deployment. Australia has about 1,000 troops in Afghanistan, and Ruddsaid Monday that the government had no plans to add more. --SPA www.spa.gov.sa/622968