The attacks took place in Zabul. PHOTO: AFP/ FILE
Six people, including three NATO soldiers, died in a car bomb attack on a convoy of vehicles in Zabul province's capital, Qalat. Provincial governor Mohammad Ashraf Nasery, travelling in the convoy, was unharmed but a local doctor was killed, as were three American soldiers and two foreign civilians, according to local and NATO officials.
The cars were en route to a school and were near to a hospital and a NATO base when the car bomb exploded. Five Afghans, including a student and two reporters, were also wounded, a local official said.
US civilian killed
In a separate attack in Afghanistan's east, a US civilian working with the American government was killed during an insurgent attack, the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said in a statement.
Zabul shares borders with Pakistan to the southeast and Kandahar province, to the south.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the Zabul attack via a text message from spokesperson Qari Yousuf Ahmadi.
The killings come in the wake of a bloody Taliban assault in the country's west several days ago that killed 44 people. The United Nations says civilians are being increasingly targeted in 2013.
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