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Suicide Attack in Afghanistan, Two Drivers Killed

A suicide car bomb exploded Tuesday near a convoy of trucks supplying NATO military bases in southern Afghanistan, killing at least two drivers, police said.

The attack in Helmand province came a day after another suicide blast killed nearly 30 people in the same area Monday in one of the deadliest attacks since the Taliban launched an insurgency nearly six years ago.

"There was a suicide car bombing against a supply convoy on the highway," Helmand police chief Mohammad Hussain Andiwal told AFP.

The bodies of two drivers had been pulled from the wreckage and seven other civilians were wounded, he said.

The attacker had exploded a bomb-laden passenger car near the convoy, which was supplying NATO military bases in the region. The blast set alight four trucks, Andiwal said.

In Monday's attack, a suicide bomber slammed a bomb-packed rickshaw into a police convoy in the town of Gereshk. Twenty-nine people were killed, half of them civilians and several more of them policemen.

The extremist Taliban movement did not claim responsibility but most of more than 100 suicide attacks in Afghanistan this year have been blamed on the militants.

Source: ANC News