Five militants killed in fresh Afghan attacks

Five militants were killed staging fresh attacks in Afghanistan as US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visited the insurgency-wracked nation yesterday, officials said.
Three Nato soldiers were wounded in one of the incidents and, in another, three civilians were hurt when a suicide vest detonated as it was being strapped to a would-be attacker in the southwestern province of Nimroz, the provincial governor said.
The man trying to put on the vest and someone helping him were killed in the explosion, which took place in a small grocery store, Nimroz governor Ghulam Dastageer Azad told AFP.
"The shop collapsed and three civilians outside were wounded, two critically," he said. The owner of the store may have been working with Taliban insurgents, he added.
A car bomb struck a vehicle of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force in the eastern province of Khost, ISAF's media office said.