(29 Oct 2005) SHOTLIST
1. Pan of convoy of NATO peacekeeping vehicles passing Mazar-e-Sharif mosque and going down road
2. Various of soldiers at scene
3. Mid shot of damaged vehicle in which British peacekeepers were travelling when attacked, doors open, windows smashed
4. Mid shot three soldiers at scene
5. Pool of blood on ground by tyre
6. Side shot damaged car
7. Interior car, damage, glass
8. Rear shot policeman
9. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Amamuddin Mohammed, Mazar-e-Sharif Police Chief:
"The identification of the arrested people is not yet known. We have arrested four men with weapons in the area where the attack happened. We will tell you their identities after the investigation."
10. Various of soldiers at scene
11. Broken glass on ground
12. Damaged car
STORYLINE
A British soldier was killed in northern Afghanistan on Saturday when gunmen attacked a patrol of peacekeepers, Britain's Ministry of Defence said.
Five more British soldiers were wounded in the attack, which targeted NATO-led peacekeepers patrolling in the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif.
Security forces cordoned off the area and arrested four suspects, according to a police spokesman, who added that the four had been carrying weapons.
He could give no details of their identities.
Mazar-e-Sharif had long been considered relatively safe because the Taliban were not believed to operate there and it was not immediately clear what motivated Saturday's attack.
The attack came on a day of violence in the country that killed 23 people in total, ahead of the announcement of the final results of landmark legislative elections, expected in the next few days.
The bloodshed was some of the deadliest since the September 18 polls and highlighted the challenges in bringing stability and strengthening the country's nascent democracy four years after the fall of the Taliban.
Election organisers planned to release the final list of winners in the next few days.
The announcement has been delayed by widespread fraud that undermined the polls' legitimacy.
Human rights advocates warn that at least half of those listed as provisional winners are former warlords or others still linked to armed groups responsible for much of the violence in the past quarter-century of war.
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