A suicide car bomber attacked a Nato convoy in Afghanistan’s capital city Kabul this morning, killing four civilians, Afghan officials said.

Gunmen fired AK-47 assault rifles at international peacekeepers patrolling the Afghan capital of Kabul, provoking a firefight with the security force, peacekeepers said today.

A British solider in the UN peacekeeping force in Afghanistan has died in hospital after he was accidentally shot in the head in the capital, Kabul, yesterday.

British peacekeepers patrolling in western Kabul were fired on as their convoy travelled to an observation post in the second shooting incident in as many days, a spokesman for the security force said today.

Automatic gunfire from a compound housing Afghan militiamen struck ‘‘very close’’ to patrolling German peacekeeping soldiers in the first such incident in more than a month, the UN peacekeeping force said today.