UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday said he deplored the car bombing that killed seven Afghan civilians, two Afghan UN staffers and one NATO soldier, in the Afghan capital of Kabul, DPA reported. Ban said he was "deeply distressed" by news of the attack. He conveyed "his deepest condolences to the families of those killed and his best wishes for a rapid recovery to those who were injured." The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack on an international convoy, which also wounded 53 Afghan civilians, and two NATO soldiers, as another bomber on Tuesday attacked an army checkpoint in the southern province of Uruzgan, killing five people.
