News, July , 2007
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Editorial Note: The following news reports are summaries from original sources. They may also include corrections of Arabic names. |
Soldier in NATO Convoy, 10 Police Officers and a Suicide Bomber Killed in Separate Attacks in Afghanistan
Editorial Note:
In the past, many of the casualties were Afghani civilians despite claims they were Taliban fighters.
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Soldier in NATO Convoy, 10 Police Officers Killed in Separate Attacks in Afghanistan
By NOOR KHAN Associated Press Writer
Jul 5, 2007, 11:16 AM EDT
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) --
A suicide bomber blew himself up at a checkpoint in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing 10 police officers, and a roadside bomb hit a NATO convoy in the east, leaving one NATO soldier dead, officials said.
The suicide attacker detonated his explosives in a room where the policemen were eating lunch at a checkpoint near Spin Boldak, a town on the Pakistani border, said Bismillah Khan, a local police official.
Two of the checkpoint rooms were destroyed, Khan said.
The blast targeting the NATO convoy raised the number of foreign soldiers killed in the country this year to at least 103.
That includes six Canadian soldiers who died along with their Afghan interpreter on Wednesday when a roadside bomb tore through a NATO vehicle in Kandahar's Zhari district.
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