AFGHANISTAN: Suicide bomber hits foreign troops in Kandahar and several civilians are also wounded in the attack.

A suicide bomber ploughed his car into a convoy of NATO troops in Afghanistan's southern city of Kandahar on Tuesday(December 5), wounding nine civilians and two NATO alliance soldiers witness and officials said. Aynee lala, a shopkeeper at the site of attack, said: "I was in my shop. Suddenly I heard a bang When I came out of my shop, I saw a foreign vehicle was on fire and smoke was rising from the vehicle and some soldiers was pulling out a wounded comrade from a destroyed vehicle and another two locals also were wounded at the blast." Two NATO soldiers were wounded and two NATO vehicles were damaged in the attack, a spokesman for the organisation said. Troops immediately cordoned off the site of the attack on the western outskirts of Kandahar. Both NATO and U.S.-led troops are stationed in Kandahar, the main stronghold of Taliban militants who have unleashed a series of suicide attacks against foreign and Afghan forces this year. On Sunday, at least eight Afghan civilians were killed in a suicide car attack against NATO troops and in subsequent firing by the soldiers in Kandahar city, nicknamed "bomb city" by many Afghans. Afghanistan this year has plunged into the bloodiest period of violence since U.S.-led troops overthrew the Taliban's radical Islamic government in 2001.

ITN Source | December 5, 2006

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