(30 Aug 2008)
1. Wide of Italian troops serving with NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) forces in military vehicles at site of attack
2. Various of Italian soldiers on guard
3. Wide of Afghan police standing beside the wreckage of vehicle used by suicide bomber
4. Close-up of vehicle wreckage
5. Afghan police at site of attack
6. Close-up of small crater in road
7. SOUNDBITE: (Dari) Ayub Salangi, Kabul police chief:
"A suicide attack happened when an ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) convoy was driving on this road to Wardak province. Fortunately there have not been any civilian or military personal casualties in the incident."
8. Various of Italian soldiers on guard at attack site
9. Close-up of Italian flag on the arm of a soldiers uniform
10. Italian soldier sat behind gun and looking through binoculars
STORYLINE:
A suicide bomber in a vehicle attacked a foreign military convoy west of the Afghan capital on Saturday, but no troops or civilians were killed, a provincial police chief said.
The suicide bomber died in the blast, which occurred just outside Kabul, police Chief Ayub Salangi said.
"A suicide attack happened when an ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) convoy was driving on this road to Wardak province. Fortunately there have not been any civilian or military personal casualties in the incident," said Ayub Salangi.
A spokesman for the NATO-led (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) force in Kabul could not immediately confirm the blast.
The attack happened a day after United States-led coalition troops killed several militants in clashes and airstrikes in the neighbouring Kapisa province to the north.
The coalition said its troops targeted insurgents in Kapisa's Nijrab district, sparking a clash in which militants retaliated with rocket-propelled grenades and machine-gun fire before coalition troops called in airstrikes, killing several rebels.
More than 3,700 people - mostly militants - have died in insurgency-related violence in Afghanistan this year.
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