A NATO soldier from the country of Georgia and two Afghan civilians were killed when a Taliban suicide bomber dressed in a woman's burqa rammed his motorcycle into an international convoy, an Afghan official and the U.S. military said Friday.
The attack took place on Thursday evening and hit the NATO patrol near the town of Qarabagh, barely 30 kilometers (18 miles) north of Kabul, the Afghan capital.
It was the second suicide bombing in as many days that targeted NATO. On Wednesday, a suicide attacker hit a convoy on the edge of the southern city of Kandahar, killing two U.S. soldiers and wounding another four. Both attacks were claimed by the Taliban.
According to the U.S. military, three other Georgian soldiers were wounded in Thursday's bombing, as well as two U.S. service members and an Afghan interpreter. The military said the wounded are in stable condition receiving treatment at the U.S. military hospital at Bagram Air Base, also north of Kabul.
The district governor in Qarabagh, Abdul Sami Sharifi, said the attacker concealed his explosives beneath the all-enveloping women's garment known as burqa. He rammed his motorcycle into the NATO patrol, setting off his explosives, Sharifi said.
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