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Nato soldier killed in Afghanistan suicide bombing Taliban suicide bomber dressed as woman targets Nato in Afghanistan
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A Nato soldier has been killed and six other personnel have been wounded in Afghanistan after a suicide bomber attacked their convoy in Kabul province, a coalition statement said. A Nato soldier from the country of Georgia and two Afghan civilians have been killed after a Taliban suicide bomber dressed in a burqa rammed his motorcycle into an international convoy.
The wounded were being treated at a US military hospital at Bagram airfield and were in a stable condition, the statement said. The attack on Thursday evening hit the Nato patrol near the town of Qarabagh, 18 miles (30km) north of Kabul, the Afghan capital.
The incident occurred on Thursday in Qarabagh district. It was the second suicide bombing in as many days that targeted Nato. On Wednesday, a suicide attacker hit a convoy on the edge of the southern city of Kandahar, killing two US soldiers and wounding another four. Responsibility for both attacks were claimed by the Taliban.
A US official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the dead soldier was not American, but provided no further details. According to the US military, three other Georgian soldiers were wounded in Thursday’s bombing, as well as two US service members and an Afghan interpreter.
A suicide bomb attack in Afghanistan on Wednesday killed two American troops as they were travelling in a convoy near the airport in the southern city of Kandahar, the military said. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. The military said the wounded were in stable conditions and receiving treatment at the US military hospital at Bagram airbase, also north of Kabul.
It was seen as a reminder of the dangers posed to the 8,400 US troops still in Afghanistan as Donald Trump considers sending thousands more soldiers to fight America’s longest war. The district governor in Qarabagh, Abdul Sami Sharifi, said the attacker concealed his explosives beneath the burqa. They were set off when he rammed his motorcycle into the patrol vehicles, Sharifi said.
The Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told the Associated Press by phone on Friday that one of its fighters from Takhar province carried out the attack at 8pm. He claimed 11 Americans were killed, although the insurgents routinely exaggerate their claims.
Meanwhile, in southern Helmand province, the Taliban stormed a market on Friday in the Gareshk district and fired at a nearby police station, according to the district police chief, Ismail Khan Khopalwaq. The market was closed and no casualties were reported in the attack.