Afghanistan: Suicide bomber who attacked NATO patrol wore burqa

Five service members and their Afghan translator were hurt in the attack.

Kabul, Aug 4: The suicide bomber who attacked a NATO patrol, killing one service member and two Afghan civilians, was wearing a burqa, an Afghan official said.

Abdul Sami Sharifi, governor of the district of Qarabagh, located north of the Afghan capital, said on Friday that the attacker was riding a motorcycle.

He said the bomber rammed his motorcycle into a NATO patrol late the previous night. The US military in Afghanistan reported the death of the coalition member but not identify the soldier's nationality.

The statement said another five service members and their Afghan translator were hurt in the attack, but were in stable condition. The Taliban have claimed responsibility for the attack in a telephone call to The Associated Press.

News reports indicated that the ambushed convoy belonged to the U.S. military and it was hit by a Taliban suicide bomber. Qarabagh district is just south of Bagram airfield, the largest U.S. base in Afghanistan.

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.

PTI