By KUNA
Kabul : One soldier of the NATO alliance was killed and another wounded in a suicide car bomb attack in western Afghanistan on Tuesday. Separately, officials say armed men kidnapped about a dozen Pakistani workers in the same western region of the troubled country. A NATO spokesperson said the soldier was killed when a suicide bomber detonated his explosive-packed car close to their convoy in Farah province. The spokesperson would not say about the condition of the soldier injured in the blast. Also their identities were not disclosed by the alliance as a polity matter. Separately, 11 Pakistani construction workers were kidnapped by unidentified armed men in Dilaram district of the same province, governor of the province told KUNA over the telephone.
Mohyuddin Baloch said the Pakistanis, all of them labourers, were kidnapped on Sunday night. He said a team comprising government officials and local elders were negotiating the release of the workers with the kidnappers; however, there is no breakthrough since then. In yet another incident, two policemen were killed and three more wounded as a roadside bomb hit their convoy in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday. The attack on police patrol was carried out in Kandahar City, capital of the province having the same name. Police chief of the province Brig. Gen. Sayed Aqa Saqib confirmed the killing of two policemen. He blamed Taliban militants for planting and detonating the bomb.