In Spin Boldak, a suicide bomber blew himself up at a police checkpost, killing three civilians. “The man entered from the Pakistani side and blew himself up as police tried to search him,” alleged Abdul Razzaq, chief of the border security force in the area. He said eight people were wounded in the attack.There were two suicide attacks in Lashkar Gah, capital of the southern province of Helmand. In both cases the bombers killed themselves but no one else.
One attacker targeted a NATO convoy, but only wounded two Afghan bystanders, according to the deputy police chief of Helmand, Mohammad Isa Iftikhari. In the other attack on an Afghan army office in the provincial capital, a soldier was wounded.
TuesdayÂ’s violence followed a roadside attack in Bakwa district of Farah province that killed nine policemen, including a local commander. The district briefly fell out of government control last month, but security forces have since moved back in.
Meanwhile, a Canadian soldier was charged with manslaughter in the accidental death of a comrade in August 2006 in Afghanistan, military police announced on Monday. Master Corporal Jeffrey Walsh was killed by a gun blast during a routine patrol near Kandahar in southern Afghanistan on August 9, 2006. Canadian authorities did not elaborate at the time on the circumstances surrounding his death, saying only that it was not due to enemy fire. In a statement on Monday, military police said Master Corporal Robbie Fraser was charged with “one count of manslaughter” and “one count of negligent performance of duty”.