(1 Mar 2010)
1. Wide of damaged bridge
2. Mid of damaged military vehicle
3. Wide of site
4. SOUNDBITE: (Pashto) Mohammad Azim, eyewitness:
"We saw a burning Toyota Corolla car and a motorbike, we also saw a foreign forces'' military tank which had fallen down from the bridge."
5. Various of NATO armoured vehicle
6. Wide of NATO troops walking
7. Mid of NATO armoured vehicle
8. Wide of helicopter flying overhead
A suicide car bomber attacked a NATO convoy crossing a bridge outside the southern Afghan city of Kandahar on Monday, tossing a military vehicle into a ravine and killing one NATO service member and four Afghan civilians, officials said.
The attacker waited in a station wagon taxi near the bridge, which NATO troops regularly check for explosives, said Inhamullah Khan, an Afghan army official at the bombing site.
The attack killed one NATO service member, said Major Marcin Walczak of the Polish Army, a spokesman for the international military coalition. He did not provide the nationality or any other details.
The Interior Ministry confirmed four civilian deaths in a statement.
Three of the civilians who died were in a car that had pulled over nearby to wait for the convoy to pass, Khan said.
Kandahar city is the capital of the province of the same name that is considered the spiritual birthplace of the Taliban.
It lies east of Helmand province, where thousands of US, NATO and Afghan troops are conducting a 2-week-old offensive to wrest control of the town of Marjah from insurgents.
Marjah has long been controlled by the Taliban, and the assault is seen as the first step in a multi-month offensive that will eventually target insurgent strongholds around Kandahar city.
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