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A suicide car bomber has killed seven people in an attack on a convoy of Western troops in the Afghan capital. | |
The bomb - the second suicide attack in three days - comes amid raised security in Kabul for Thursday's election. | |
The Nato-led force said reports indicated some of its troops were among those killed and injured, while the UN said two of its employees were killed. | |
A few hours earlier, a rocket was fired into the presidential compound in Kabul; no-one was reported injured. | |
In southern Afghanistan, in Uruzgan province, a suicide bomber on foot blew himself up at a checkpoint, killing three Afghan soldiers. | |
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Militants have been threatening to disrupt Thursday's vote, in which Hamid Karzai is tipped to be re-elected president. | |
The BBC's Hugh Sykes, in Kabul, says the bombings are likely to make people nervous about going to cast their ballot. | |
Witnesses said the Kabul suicide blast on the notorious Jalalabad road struck the convoy of foreign troops near a bustling market, and that children were among more than 50 people wounded. | |
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. | |
An Associated Press reporter at the scene saw British soldiers, who were securing the site, collecting what appeared to be body parts from the roof of an Afghan home. | |
"I saw wounded people and dead people everywhere," a shopkeeper named Sawad told Reuters news agency. | |
"It was a suicide attack... targeting a supply convoy of foreign forces," Kabul police chief Sayed Abdul Ghafar Sayedzada told AP news agency. | |
Two Afghan UN staff were feared killed in the attack. | |
"I am shocked and greatly saddened to have learned that two of my staff members were among those killed in today's suicide bombing," UN special representative Kai Eide said in a statement. | |
Thursday's vote will be Afghanistan's second presidential election since the US-led invasion in 2001 toppled the Taliban regime. |