Nato convoy hit by car bomb in Afghanistan

A suicide car bomb has struck a NATO force convoy in Afghanistan wounding four soldiers and an Afghan.

The suicide blast - blamed on the Taleban movement - struck an International Security Assistance Force convoy in the southern city of Kandahar.

A police officer at the scene said the blast was caused by a suicide attacker who rammed a taxi filled with explosives into the convoy.

The Taleban was forced from government in late 2001 and is now waging an insurgency that has seen almost daily roadside bombings or suicide blasts, most of them in southern Afghanistan.

Meanwhile, British troops have killed nine rebels preparing an attack in the southern province of Helmand where most of a British deployment of about 4500 troops is based.

- RADIO AUSTRALIA