(16 Nov 2008)
Baghlan
++SHOTS 1-8 AND 10 ARE MUTE++
1. Wide of an Afghan medical worker passing by damaged German armoured vehicle
2. Mid of troops and damaged armoured vehicle, pan right
3. Afghan officials at scene of attack
4. Vehicles passing damaged armoured vehicle
5. Various, wreckage of suicide bomber's car
6. German armoured vehicle on road, another one off to the side
7. Crater in road
8. Mid of damaged civilian vehicle
9. Wide of destruction
10. SOUNDBITE: (Dari) General Abdul Rahman Sayedkhail, Baghlan Province police chief
"A vehicle which was packed with explosives was detonated by a suicide bomber in front of a German vehicle. As a result 12 civilians, including innocent children, were wounded and one civilian was killed. A German military vehicle was damaged and one of their personnel was wounded."
11. Various of wounded civilians in hospital
Herat
12. Wide shot scene of attack
13. US and Afghan investigation team inspecting suicide bomber's car
14. Various of ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) and US forces at scene
15. Various of wreckage of suicide bomber's car
16. Mid of people at scene
17. Wide shot US soldiers and vehicle
18. Various of Afghan police vehicles at scene
19. Car wreckage
20. Fire fighter hosing down road
STORYLINE:
A suicide car bomber struck a NATO convoy in the northern Baghlan province of Afghanistan on Sunday, killing one civilian and wounding 12 other people, officials said.
Two NATO soldiers were among the wounded, said a NATO spokesman, and it later emerged that they were members of the German contingent of the NATO-led ISAF (International Security Assistance Force).
The police chief of Baghlan Province, General Abdul Rahman Sayedkhail, gave details of the attack.
Also on Sunday, two US troops were wounded when a suicide car bomber struck their convoy in western Herat province, according to Colonel Greg Julian, spokesman for the US military in Afghanistan.
AP Television filmed US and Afghan investigation teams examining the mangled wreckage of the bomber's car at the scene.
Violence in Afghanistan has reached its highest level since the US-led invasion ousted the Taliban regime in 2001, and as a surge in US missile strikes on the Pakistani side of the border has prompted protests from Pakistan government leaders.
Attacks in Afghanistan are up 30 percent from 2007, military officials say.
More than 5,400 people - most of them militants - have died in insurgency-related violence this year, according to a tally of official figures provided to the AP.
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