By KUNA,
Kabul : Canadian and Afghan soldiers and other civilians were injured in a suicide car bomb attack on a military convoy in Afghanistan’s troubled province of Kandahar on Wednesday, police said. A NATO spokesman confirmed the attack on the military convoy near the border town of Spin Boldak, with no comments on any casualties.
Commander of Afghanistan’s border police Abdul Raziq said a suicide bomber ploughed his explosive-packed car into a the Canadian forces’ convoy near Spin Boldak this morning.
He said, two Canadian and two Afghan soldiers, and as many Afghan civilians sustained injuries in the explosion.
In Kabul, NATO officials confirmed the blast but refrained from telling if there were any casualties.
Earlier in the day, the US-led coalition force informed a military helicopter was shot down by small-arms fire in Logar province, located close to Kabul.
Meanwhile, three suspected militants were killed while planting a roadside bomb in the country’s southern Ghazni province, officials said. The three people were planting a bomb in Andar district when the device went off prematurely, said spokesman for Ghazni government Jehangir Khan. Afghanistan’s Ghazni province is located some 90 kilometres south of Kabul and is considered one of the strong bases of Taliban. The militants had kidnapped 23 Korean missionaries in the same province in July last year. Two of them were killed while the rest were freed after a secret deal with the Afghan government and the Korean embassy in Kabul.