Afghan attack kills 3 kids, Nato soldier
A bicycle bomb killed three children and wounded six civilians in southern Afghanistan yesterday at a camp for returning Mecca pilgrims, as it emerged that a civilian died in a Nato air strike.
The dead children were selling plastic and paper flowers when the blast struck at a camp near Kandahar city, the spiritual home of the Taliban, police told AFP.
Most of the wounded were taxi drivers waiting at the camp, which was clear of pilgrims at the time.
"Three children were killed and another six elders were wounded," provincial police chief General Mohammad Khan Mujahid told AFP.
Pools of blood collected in the car park where the bomb was detonated, an AFP reporter said, adding that pieces of the blown-up bicycle and plastic and paper fragments also lay around the scene.
The bomb was detonated remotely, local officials added in a statement which confirmed the casualty toll.
Separately, the international forces fighting the Taliban insurgency announced that one of their planes accidentally killed a civilian and injured two children in Marjah in neighbouring Helmand province on Tuesday.
The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) is sending a team to the area to investigate the incident, which happened as the plane supported a patrol of Afghan and coalition forces.
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