Suicide car bomber hits Canadian troops in southern Afghanistan, 1 civilian killed

By SPA

Kandahar, Afghanistan : A suicide car bomber attacked a convoy of Canadian troops Wednesday in the southern city of Kandahar, killing a passing civilian and wounding one soldier, Ap reported.


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A Humvee military vehicle had been destroyed. NATO troops cordoned off the area, preventing journalists and police from getting near the vehicles.

A passing truck driver was killed in the attack, and two civilian passers-by were wounded, said police officer Nematullah Khan.

Capt. Mark Gough, a spokesman for NATO’s International Security Assistance Force in the south, said one ISAF soldier was lightly wounded in the attack.

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