A suicide attacker blew up his explosives-laden car next to a German military convoy in northern Afghanistan on Sunday, killing three Afghan civilians, AP quoted officials and witnesses as saying. Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid claimed responsibility for the attack. The bomber detonated his vehicle on a busy road on the edge of Kunduz city, near the airport, the Afghan Interior Ministry said. An Associated Press reporter at the scene saw at least one overturned armored vehicle and what appeared to be a civilian car that was mangled in the blast. Three civilians were killed and 11 were wounded in the attack, the ministry said. Germany's military said two German soldiers were lightly wounded and treated at a nearby base. Two vehicles were damaged, according to a German military spokesman, who declined to be named in line with department policy. The commander of a German base outside Kunduz, Col. Norbert Sabrautzki, was traveling in the convoy to a security meeting with the provincial governor and other Afghan officials in Kunduz when the bomber struck, the spokesman said. He said the military had no indications that the commander, who was not injured, was the target of the blast. -- SPA
