Suicide blast kills 12 in Afghanistan

A suicide bomber attacked foreign military forces in northern Afghanistan yesterday, killing up to 12 people, officials said.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack on foreign troops filming interviews in a park in Maymana, the capital of Faryab province, as Nato's fatalities in the decade-long conflict passed the 100 mark for 2012.
Nato's US-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said only that three service members died after an explosion in northern Afghanistan, without officially confirming that it was the same incident or giving nationalities.
Faryab, which borders Turkmenistan, is far from centres of the Taliban-led insurgency in Afghanistan's south and east, but it suffers sporadic attacks.
There were conflicting reports about the exact death toll and the identity of the victims after the suicide bomber, who police said was riding an explosives-packed motorcycle, blew himself up.