Three foreigners hurt in Afghan suicide attack

HERAT, Afghanistan (AFP) — Three foreign nationals were hurt in a suicide car bomb attack in western Afghanistan on Friday as hundreds of Afghans protested in the south after US troops killed 11 suspected militants.

The suicide attacker struck a convoy leaving a police training centre on the outskirts of the western city of Herat, US officials said. Two Afghan women were also slightly hurt by shattered glass, witnesses said.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, which was similar to scores carried out by extremist Taliban militants waging an insurgency against the US-backed government.

"Two civilian contractors were wounded this morning in western Afghanistan when their convoy was struck by a suicide vehicle bomber," the US military said in a statement that did not identify the civilians.