ROME, Sept. 27 (Xinhua) -- Three Italian soldiers were slightly wounded and an Afghan interpreter seriously hurt Wednesday when a roadside bomb exploded near the Italian command post at the western Afghan city of Herat, according to Italian News Agency ANSA.
It was the second bomb attack on Italians in two days.
On Tuesday an Italian soldier was killed along with a young Afghan child in a roadside bomb attack near the capital Kabul.
Five other Italian soldiers were injured - two seriously - in the remote-control blast.
The body of the Italian victim, 31-year-old Corporal Giorgio Langella, will be flown back home this evening.
Langella was the seventh Italian soldier to die in Afghanistan, and the second in less than a week.
Private Giuseppe Orlando died last Wednesday in a road accident near Kabul.
The latest attacks by the Islamist Taliban militia have sparked further calls for Italy to withdraw from Afghanistan.
The Italian Communists' Party said "it's clear that it's time to pull out of this quagmire. Herat was supposed to be safe. A withdrawal will send a message of realism to our allies."
Italian Junior Foreign Minister Patrizia Sentinelli, a member of the hard-left Communist Refoundation party, responded by calling for a "serious" parliamentary debate on the future of the Italian mission.
But Defense Minister Arturo Parisi, a centrist, reiterated that Italy would respect its NATO commitments.
"The situation would be worse without us there, working for peace," he said.
The opposition led by ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi urged the government to "forcefully reject these calls from the radical Left and show that Italy can do its international duty."
Defense Chief of Staff Admiral Gianpaolo di Paola said the security measures protecting Italian troops were "already high" but the situation was one of "highs and lows".
Following Italy's recent withdrawal from Iraq, pacifist and leftist groups in Premier Romano Prodi's center-left government have argued troops should be pulled out of Afghanistan too.
Italy has some 1,700 troops serving in Afghanistan as part of the Nato-led ISAF peacekeeping mission there. Enditem
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