A suicide car bomb exploded next to a Nato convoy in southern Afghanistan today, and troops speeding away from the scene shot at several civilian cars, officials said.

A suicide bomber killed at least 12 people and wounded more than 40, many just arriving for work, in a busy pedestrian alley next to Afghanistan’s Interior Ministry today, officials said.

A CAR bomb targeting a British military convoy killed four Afghan civilians and one British soldier in the Afghan capital Kabul yesterday, NATO and Afghan officials said. Ten people were wounded.

A suicide attacker detonated his bomb-rigged car near a coalition military convoy north of Kabul today, killing himself and an Afghan bystander, but causing no coalition casualties.