 A suicide car bomb has exploded near a Nato military convoy in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, killing at least eight people and wounding nearly 30 others, police said.
Officials on Thursday said three of those killed in the blast were children.
"Eight people have been killed. Twenty-six Afghans including two policemen were injured. It was a suicide bombing," said Sayed Agha Saqeb, the provincial police chief at a local hospital after the blast.
Taliban fighters claimed responsibility for the attack. Saqeb also said the explosion occurred as a foreign convoy passed through the area. Hazrat Mir, a local resident wounded from the blast, said: "I was there. I saw a [foreign] military convoy passing by."
Isaf casualties A spokesman with Nato's International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) said three foreign soldiers were injured in the blast but declined to give their nationalities. The separate US-led coalition said it was gathering reports, but a spokesman said "we don't deny" the wounded are coalition forces. A Canadian military spokesman rejected an interior ministry report that they were from Canada. Kandahar has suffered many of the suicide bombings that have rocked Afghanistan in recent months. Nearly 140 people died in two blasts in two days in the city in February. One of the bombings targeted a crowd watching a dog-fight, killing about 100 people in the deadliest attack since the Taliban launched an insurgency after a US-led invasion toppled their regime in 2001.
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