By DPA
Kabul : A suicide attacker rammed his explosives-packed vehicle into a car containing foreign nationals in the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday, killing himself and wounding six people including two foreigners.
Also on Saturday, eight police and two Afghan security guards were killed in a roadside bomb attack in the south of the country, officials said.
The Kabul attack, which took place in front of a United Nations office in the eastern part of the city, also wounded an Afghan police officer and three civilians, interior ministry spokesman Zemarai Bashary told DPA.
Bashary could not immediately disclose the nationality of the foreign nationals, nor could he say whether the vehicle was military or civilian.
A police official at the scene of the attack, who requested anonymity, however said that the convoy belonged to NATO forces.
British forces serving under the banner of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) cordoned off the area around the site of the attack, and did not allow access to Afghan police or media.
An ISAF spokesman confirmed the attack and said it was against US-led coalition forces, but a coalition spokesperson in Bagram airfield, the biggest US base in Afghanistan, was not aware of the incident.
There has been a spate of suicide and roadside attacks in Afghanistan this year, most of them in southern and eastern regions of the country, but also in Kabul.
Elsewhere in Afghanistan, eight Afghan policemen were killed and two others were wounded when their vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb in Shah Walikot district of southern Kandahar province, police official Mohammad Qayoum told DPA.
Qayoum said that another police officer had gone missing following the attack.
Taliban spokesman Qari Mohammad Yousif Ahmadi claimed responsibility for the attack and said that 11 policemen were killed.
In another incident, two Afghan guards were killed and three others were wounded when their vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb in the southern province of Kandahar on Saturday morning, Sayed Agha Saqib, provincial police chief of Kandahar told DPA.
He said that the vehicle, part of a convoy supplying food for NATO forces in southern Afghanistan, was attacked in Zherai district.
Meanwhile, Afghan forces killed 19 suspected Taliban on Friday in separate attacks in southern Ghazni province where 19 South Korean are being held hostage for the past month.
The Afghan forces killed 16 suspected Taliban in Giro district of the province, Mehrajuddin Patan, provincial governor said.
Patan said that three other Taliban were killed in Andar district and three more wounded.
Another 10 militants were killed in an operation in the north-eastern province of Kapisa, the defence ministry said in a statement.
During operations that started last week in the province, 16 Taliban fighters were also wounded.
More than 3,000 people, most of them insurgents, but including hundreds of Afghan and international forces, have been killed in the violence in Afghanistan this year after Taliban-led fighters stepped up their attacks in the country.