Four foreign troops injured in Afghan blast: officials

Source: AFP

KABUL (AFP) - Four international troops were injured in an explosion in volatile eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, officials said, but there were conflicting claims about how the blast was caused.

The Afghan interior ministry said a suicide car bomb targeted foreign troops, while the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force said an improvised explosive device (IED) had caused the casualties.

"I can confirm there was a suicide car bomb against a foreign military convoy," ministry spokesman Zemarai Bashary told AFP after the blast in Jalalabad city.

An interior ministry statement later said five civilians were also wounded.

But ISAF spokesman contradicted the account, saying "there was an IED attack on an ISAF convoy and four soldiers have been injured." He added that the force was unaware of any civilian casualties.



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Afghanistan (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber killed one foreign soldier and wounded six other people, including three civilians, in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar on Saturday, the provincial governor said.

The Taliban have vowed to step up their campaign of suicide bombings this year, after carrying out 140 such attacks in 2007 which killed 200 civilians.

The suicide car bomber rammed his car into a moving military convoy in the city of Jalalabad before detonating explosives, Gol Agha Shirzai, governor of Nangarhar province, said.

One coalition soldier was killed and three wounded, he said.

Three civilians were also wounded in the attack.

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KABUL (AFP) - Two NATO soldiers were killed Saturday in a Taliban suicide car bomb attack in eastern Afghanistan, while authorities said more than 100 rebels were slain in military operations in the southwest.

Four more International Security Assistance Force soldiers and five civilians were wounded in the blast in Jalalabad, a thriving city 50 kilometres (30 miles) from the Pakistan border, the alliance and Afghan government said.

The 40-nation ISAF would not release the nationalities of its casualties, according to policy. Most foreign troops in eastern Afghanistan are US nationals.

The new deaths bring to 67 the number of international soldiers who have died in Afghanistan this year, most of them in hostile action.

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