KABUL, May 25 (RIA Novosti) - A child was killed and five people were wounded after a suicide bomber struck a NATO convoy in southern Afghanistan, local security officials said on Sunday.
The suicide bomber attacked the convoy in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar. There were no casualties among the NATO troops. All the persons wounded in the explosion, including the child killed in the blast, were passers-by, security officials said.
The militant group Taliban carried out more than 140 suicide missions in Afghanistan last year. More than 6,000 people were killed in violence in the country in 2007, nearly 2,000 of them civilians, according to official sources.
Taliban militants are especially active in the southern and eastern parts of Afghanistan, which border on Pakistan.
