Nato fuel tankers blast kills 3 in Afghanistan

Officials say insurgents set fire to a convoy of Nato fuel tankers in eastern Afghanistan, while a bomb blasts in the south killed a NATO service member and two civilians.

A spokesman for the Nangarhar provincial government, Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, says the convoy attack started in the early morning when a group of gunmen rushed on the trucks in Behsod district of Nangarhar province. He says the drivers fled and the insurgents set 12 tankers ablaze. No one was killed in the attack.

In the south, a local official district government chief Abdul Ghani, says the civilians were killed in an explosion in Spin Boldak district of Kandahar province. The Nato service member was killed in a separate attack.