(7 Dec 2006) SHOTLIST
1. Various of armed Afghan police officers at blast scene
2. Mid of police and onlookers around car bomb wreckage
3. Afghan police officers examining suicide vehicle
4. Mid of police officers looking at debris on ground
5. Wide exterior of building with shattered windows
6. SOUNDBITE (Pashto) Alum Shah, eyewitness:
"I was riding a bike just a few metres from the convoy. There was a suicide attack and explosion of the vehicle. There was no casualties on the convoy, only civilians were killed and wounded."
7. Police and onlookers around car bomb wreckage
8. Police removing wreckage
9. Police car driving by the scene with AUDIO of siren
STORYLINE
A suicide car bomber attacked a NATO convoy on Thursday in southern Afghanistan, killing at least two Afghan civilians and wounding several others in the seventh suicide attack in the Kandahar region in 11 days, officials said.
No NATO troops were hurt in the blast, a spokesman for the alliance said.
But a police official at the scene said some 15 civilians were killed or wounded near the blast site. He did not provide a breakdown of the dead and wounded.
An eyewitness who was passing by on his bike when the blast happened said "there was no casualties on the convoy, only civilians were killed and wounded."
A doctor said two dead civilians and seven others injured in the blast were sent to a local hospital in Kandahar.
Near-daily attacks plague Afghanistan's lawless southern provinces - the former stronghold of the hardline Taliban regime, where the central government wields little power.
The Kandahar region has seen seven suicide bombings since November 27, when two Canadian soldiers were killed in an attack.
On Wednesday, another bomber blew himself up next to a group of security contractors at the offices of the US Protection and Investigations in Kandahar, killing two Americans and five Afghans.
A Taliban spokesman claimed responsibility for that attack.
Taliban militants have launched a record number of suicide and roadside bombs this year.
A burgeoning conflict, especially in the country's south and east, has left close to four-thousand people dead, mostly militants killed in fighting with Afghan and Western forces.
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