Kandahar - Four Afghan security guards were killed in a suicide attack in southern Afghanistan, while a NATO soldier was killed in a separate incident in the same region, officials said on Sunday. A suicide bomber detonated his explosive-laden motorbike near a road-construction convoy in Lashkargah, the capital of southern Helmand province Saturday night, killing himself and four Afghan security guards, provincial police chief Mohammad Hassan Andiwal said.
He said three other guards were wounded in the third such attacks in as many days in the region.
The guards were providing security for an Afghan road construction company building the Kandahar-Helmand highway.
In anther suicide attack on Saturday in the neighboring province of Kandahar against a US private security firm, 15 people including three Afghan security guards were killed and 25 others, including women, and children were wounded.
One day earlier in a similar attack, a district chief along with his three children was killed when a bomber detonated himself near his house in Kandahar city.
Meanwhile, one soldier with NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) was killed on Sunday while performing convoy escort duties in southern Afghanistan, ISAF said in statement.
The statement did not identify the nationality of the deceased soldier, not did it say how and where exactly the incident took place.
The majority of the forces in southern region are Dutch, Canadian, British and US soldiers.
Officials estimate that about 3,900 people have been killed in the violence in Afghanistan this year, mostly insurgents, but also including hundreds of Afghan and international forces.
