(23 Jun 2009) SHOTLIST
1. Wide of blast site, smouldering wreckage and international troops and locals looking on
2. Burnt out wreckage with international troop convoy parked in front of blast site
3. Smouldering wreckage with international troops and locals gathered
4. Burnt bicycle believed to belong to one of the victims lies on its side
5. Locals, Afghan police and international troops observing the wreckage
6. Wide of blast site
7. SOUNDBITE (Pashto) General Khaialbaz Sherzai, Ghazni police chief:
"This morning around 0830 (0400GMT) the ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) convoy was driving from Shairan to Ghazni, a Toyota car tried to overtake the convoy, it was targeting the convoy but could not reach them. It was travelling at high speed and detonated in Ashrat village. As a result two civilians were killed."
8. Wide of Ghazni Hospital
9. Various of wounded inside the hospital, receiving treatment
10. Injured in hospital
11. Man with heavily bandaged leg.
12. Doctor working on patient
STORYLINE
A suicide car bomber attacked a convoy of international troops in central Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing two Afghan civilians, officials said.
The driver of the car rammed into the convoy on a highway in Ghazni province about 2.5 miles (four kilometres) west of Ghazni city, said a spokesman for the provincial governor.
Ghazni police chief, General Khaialbaz Sherzai, also confirmed the deaths of two civilians and said that a vehicle had been trying to overtake the convoy, when it detonated.
There was no information about whether any international troops were killed or wounded in the blast.
Civilian deaths have become an increasingly contentious issue in Afghanistan as worsening violence has turned more villagers and passers-by into victims.
While much of the debate has focused on airstrikes by international troops, the majority have been attributed to the Taliban and other militants.
The United Nations has said over 2,100 civilians died in the Afghan war last year.
International and Afghan forces killed about 40 percent of them.

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