 A child has been killed in a suicide bomb attack close to a Nato military convoy near the southern Afghan border with Pakistan, a police chief has said.
The troops, believed to be Canadians, were unharmed in Wednesday's attack near the town of Spin Boldak, Abdul Raziq, a border police commander, told the AFP news agency.
"There was a suicide car bomb attack targeting Nato forces on the road near Spin Boldak. The troops did not suffer any casualties but a child nearby was killed," he said.
The Canadian military based at the nearby city of Kandahar did not immediately have information about the attack.
The incident came a day after three Nato soldiers, including a Canadian, died in other attacks in Afghanistan.
Roadside bombing The Canadian soldier was shot on Tuesday when a patrol came under attack from fighters in Kandahar's volatile Panjwayi district, the military said.
Two other International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) soldiers were killed on Tuesday in a roadside bombing in the eastern province of Paktia. Their nationalities were not released but most troops in the area are American.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the bomb blast.
It was similar to a string of attacks by the group, which was removed from government in an invasion led by the United States in late 2001.
Seventy foreign soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan this year, most of them in insurgency-linked violence.
More than 70,000 international forces, the bulk of them under Nato command, are helping the government tackle the violence.
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