Suicide Car Bomber Kills Three Afghans

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - A suicide bomber rammed a car laden with explosives into a convoy carrying Westerners in the main southern city of Kandahar on Wednesday, killing three Afghan civilians and wounding four others, officials said.

The attack came two days after militants used twin suicide car bombs to attack NATO peacekeepers in the capital, Kabul. Authorities blamed al-Qaida for those blasts, which killed a German peacekeeper and eight Afghans.

The bombings appear to be part of a new campaign by militants to use suicide assailants. Until two months ago, they were relatively rare here, unlike in Iraq. But since then, nine such assaults have been used nationwide.

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