A NATO soldier, an Afghan official and her husband were killed and three civilians injured in two bombings Friday in southern and eastern Afghanistan, officials said, according to dpa. "An international alliance soldier was killed in a roadside bombing in southern Afghanistan," the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force said in a statement, without providing details of his nationality or the exact location of the blast. Meanwhile, Laghman provincial women's affairs department chief and her husband were killed and their daughter injured when a bomb in their car detonated, police said. Two civilians standing near the vehicle were also wounded. "Hanifa Safi along with her husband and their daughter were going to a wedding ceremony in Mehtar Lam city, the provincial capital, when the bomb placed in their car went off," provincial police chief Abdul Rahman Sarjang told dpa. The injured were taken to hospital and were not in critical condition, he added, blaming Taliban insurgents for the bombing. Taliban sources were not immediately available for comment.
