One NATO soldier and two Afghan civilians were killed when a gunman opened fire on a coalition forces convoy in southern Afghanistan, a police official said on Saturday. According to dpa, a shopkeeper and a child were killed when a convoy of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) was attacked in Kandahar, provincial police chief Sher Shah Yousufzai said. The gunman was killed in the shootout the ensued, he said. "It is unclear which side fired the fatal shots," he added. The ISAF confirmed the death of a service member in "an insurgent attack in southern Afghanistan" but declined to say in its statement whether the death occurred in Kandahar.
