Car bomb kills four Afghans and one British soldier

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.

It came the same day as one NATO soldier was killed by friendly fire and several were wounded during a major offensive to crush a resurgent Taliban in southern Afghanistan.

The troops were strafed by two of their own warplanes after calling in air support during a battle at close quarters with Taliban fighters in Kandahar province, the alliance said in a statement.