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Bombers target Nato patrols
04/08/2006 12:09 - (SA)
Kandahar - Two bombs exploded on Friday near Nato patrols in a part of southern Afghanistan that saw several deadly attacks a day earlier but the blasts caused no Nato casualties, the force said.
The first blast in southern Kandahar province destroyed a car and it was unclear if there were any civilian casualties, a spokesperson for Nato's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said.
It also seemed unlikely it was a vehicle-borne suicide device of the sort that killed 21 civilians in the area on Thursday, Major Scott Lundy said.
"We don't have information to suggest it was a suicide bomb," he said.
"Shortly after the explosion a second occurred and again caused no casualties and no damage to ISAF personnel and vehicles. There is no report of civilian casualties," he told AFP.
The attacks were in Maiwand district, which adjoins Panjwayi where four Canadian ISAF soldiers were killed and 10 wounded on Thursday in two roadside bomb attacks and an ambush by Taliban fighters.
A suicide attacker later detonated a car bomb in a crowded bazaar as a Nato convoy passed nearby to fetch the vehicles damaged in the earlier blasts.
Twenty-one Afghans, including children, were killed while ISAF said "a few" of its soldiers were wounded.
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