(17 Sep 2006)
1. Wide of scene of explosion with police and NATO forces at site
2. Canadian forces repairing damaged vehicle
3. Police vehicles
4. Wide of Canadian forces
5. Wide of damaged vehicle
6. Wide of explosion area
6. Canadian forces
7. Policeman
8. Wide of damaged vehicle with Canadian forces searching through wreckage
9. SOUNDBITE: (Pashto) Gul Mahamed, Eyewitness:
"I was passing by, I heard a big explosion. I saw a suicide vehicle was destroyed and the Canadian forces' vehicle was damaged. I don't know the casualties of the Canadian forces. But there are civilians killed and wounded."
10. NATO tanks and soldiers
STORYLINE:
A suicide bomber ploughed his explosive-laden vehicle into a Canadian military convoy in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, killing one civilian.
The bomber, who also died in the blast, targeted the convoy west of Kandahar city, said a police official at the scene.
Three soldiers were slightly wounded, a NATO statement said, without identifying their nationalities.
Eight other civilians were wounded, police said.
One Canadian military vehicle was slightly damaged in the blast and the bomber's vehicle was destroyed, an Associated Press reporter at the scene said.
The latest in the string of bombings came as NATO-led troops and aircraft killed 17 suspected insurgents in neighbouring Uruzgan province.
The renewed American push to defeat the Taliban-led insurgency comes nearly five years after the US-led invasion ousted the hardline militia
from power.
Dubbed Operation Mountain Fury, the new offensive involves 7,000 U.S. and Afghan soldiers in the central and eastern provinces of Paktika, Khost,
Ghazni, Paktya and Logar, the military said.
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