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ReutersSuicide blast kills 7 in Afghanistan
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - A suicide bomber on foot attacked a foreign military convoy in southern Afghanistan on Friday killing one soldier, an Afghan interpreter and five civilians, police and the U.S. military said.
The attack was in Helmand, one of Afghanistan's most violence-plagued provinces to the west of Kandahar province where Afghan government and NATO soldiers battled Taliban militants on the outskirts of the provincial capital this week.
Provincial police chief Hussein Andiwal initially said 10 civilians were killed in the attack in Girishk district but he later said he had been misinformed and five civilians had been killed.
Afghan national army soldiers look at dead bodies of the Taliban after fighting in Manara village of the Arghandabad district in the southern city of Kandahar. Afghan and NATO-led forces cleared out Taliban militants from the outskirts of Kandahar city on Thursday, killing or wounding hundreds of the insurgents, the provincial governor said.
A U.S.-led coalition force operating in Afghanistan said one of its soldiers and an Afghan interpreter were killed.
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