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Suicide bomb hits Afghan capital Nato troops kill Afghan civilian
(about 6 hours later)
A suicide car bomber has killed at least three people and wounded five in an attack on a Nato convoy in the Afghan capital, Kabul, police say. Nato troops have killed a civilian at the scene of a suicide bomb attack in Kabul, Afghan and Nato officials say.
One of those wounded in the attack, which took place in the morning rush hour near a bus station, was said to be a foreign soldier. Several others were injured when the US soldiers opened fire. The US military said the shooting had been accidental.
Witnesses say the blast caused chaos and damaged nearby shops. At least three people died in the suicide bombing, officials say. Another civilian died in a suicide bombing later on Saturday in Mazar-e-Sharif.
Taleban militants frequently attack foreign troops in Afghanistan but attacks in Kabul are less common. Saturday's attacks bring to four the number of suicide bombings in Afghanistan in the past two days.
In Saturday's attack, the bomber was reportedly driving a taxi packed with explosives. Suicide attacks have become a regular feature of the Taleban's campaign against the Western-backed government of President Hamid Karzai in recent years.
The bomb went off on a main road 'Accidental discharge'
An unidentified foreign national was "slightly wounded", Alishah Paktiawal, head of the city police's criminal department, told the AFP news agency. The BBC's Charles Haviland in Kabul says there is considerable confusion surrounding the shooting incident at the scene of the early morning bombing in the city.
The target of was a convoy of the Nato-led force, Isaf. There might have been a weapons malfunction or some other cause Col David Accetta,US military spokesman
On Friday, two attacks in southern Afghanistan also targeted convoys of foreign troops. Nato's Isaf force said two Afghans had accidentally been shot by its soldiers. One of the Afghans later died, it announced with regret.
One bomb killed 10 people, including five Afghan children, four Afghan adult civilians and a Dutch Nato soldier. "Initial indications are that an Isaf soldier's weapon accidentally fired," said Isaf spokesman Maj John Thomas.
The US military says it is investigating how the firing occurred.
Spokesman Col David Accetta said US soldiers had "responded" to the suicide attack but had not intended to fire on anyone.
"It appears to have been an accidental discharge," he told the AFP news agency. "There might have been a weapons malfunction or some other cause. We don't know."
Anger over civilian casualties has been growing among Afghans and crowds gathered at the scene to protest afterwards.
Convoys targeted
In the suicide attack on Kabul's western outskirts, a man drove a taxi packed with explosives at a foreign convoy, killing himself and several others.
The Kabul bomb went off on a main road
The blast was powerful enough to shatter shop windows.
The government says an Isaf convoy was the target of the attacker, but Isaf and the US-led coalition said it appeared that private security vehicles had been targeted.
Suicide attacks have claimed hundreds of lives in Afghanistan and are on the rise.
One in southern Afghanistan on Friday killed some 10 people, including six children and a Dutch soldier.
Saturday's blast in Mazar-e-Sharif injured another 12 people, security officials in the northern city told the BBC.
They said the attacker rammed his motorbike into a passing Nato convoy. There were no reports of Nato casualties.