A suicide blast in the Afghan capital wounded three NATO soldiers and three civilians on Monday, while officials said 14 people had died in other attacks blamed on the extremist Taliban movement. The bomber blew himself up near a NATO convoy on a busy road in Kabul that is frequently used by international troops in the east of the heavily secured and increasingly jittery city. Three passers-by were wounded and three NATO peacekeepers had minor injuries. Police arrested a second man with explosives and wires on his body at the bomb site, said criminal investigation police chief Ali Shah Paktiawal, alleging that the man had planned to attack him when he arrived at the scene to investigate the first blast.
Sources said the wounded soldiers were French but the French military said it could not comment immediately. A purported spokesman for the Taliban, Mohammad Hanif, claimed responsibility for the attack.