KANDAHAR: At least three Afghan civilians were killed and six others injured when a Taliban suicide bomber detonated his explosives-laden vehicle in a failed attempt to target foreign forces in southern Afghanistan’s Kandahar province on Saturday, officials said.
The incident happened when the attacker prematurely detonated his explosives-laden vehicle before he got close to an international military convoy on patrol in the Daman district of Kandahar province, the Kandahar governor’s spokesman Javed Faisal said.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid claimed responsibility for the attack, which occurred three or four kilometres from Kandahar airport, a major base for US forces in Afghanistan.
