Suicide bomber killed in attack on French convoy in Afghanistan

By Afp, Kandahar
A suicide car bomber was killed yesterday when he rammed his vehicle into a coalition convoy in southern Afghanistan, officials and witnesses said.

A local police commander in the restive Spin Boldak district of Kandahar province said the convoy was made up several vehicles of French troops operating under the US-led coalition in the region.

"No one but the attacker was killed in the explosion. It was a suicide car bomb," said the commander, who asked not to be named.