Two Canadian soldiers were killed in a suicide bomb attack on a coalition vehicle in Afghanistan.

A suicide attacker rammed an explosive-laden car into a coalition vehicle in Kandahar, Afghanistan, today, wounding some coalition soldiers and seven civilians, officials say.

NATO will double the number of troops in southern Afghanistan when it takes over security from US forces there next month in an attempt to quash the worst rebel violence since the fall of the Taliban in 2001, the force’s commander said today.