Suicide attack kills 5 men in south Afghanistan
Gen. Abul Razaq, Kandahar provincial police chief, said the attack also wounded 16 people, including three police officers and six children. The bomber detonated his explosives at a police checkpoint, he said.
Kamal Shah, a doctor at Kandahar city's Mirwais Hospital, confirmed the casualty count.
Also in the south, NATO said Tuesday that one of its service members was killed by a roadside bomb. A statement said the death occurred on Monday. It gave no further details about the soldier's nationality or where exactly the blast occurred.
A
total
of
544
NATO
troops
died
in
Afghanistan
in
2011,
the
tenth
year
of
the
war.
The
total
was
considerably
lower
than
for
2010,
when
more
than
700
troops
died.
About
840
Afghan
soldiers
and
policemen
died
in
2011.
AP