A suicide attack in south-eastern Afghanistan killed six guards working for a road construction company, as nearly 50 Taliban insurgents and one Nato soldier were killed elsewhere, officials said Friday.
A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle at the Sky construction company in the Jadran district of Paktia province, said local governor Abdul Wali Jadran. "Six security guards of the company were killed and another three were wounded in the blast," he told AFP. Separately, Nato and Afghan soldiers killed a Taliban commander and 19 of his men in an overnight operation in western Herat province, said Jalandar Shah Behnam.