Three Brits injured in Helmand bomb attack

 

40 Afghan civilians were wounded in the blast when a Toyota saloon car exploded as a convoy of armour-plated cars carrying military and civilian officials drove through central Lashkar Gah. The 10.45am blast outside an education ministry building was so strong it knocked over at least one vehicle in the convoy and destroyed nearby shops, local officials said. An Afghan child was among the dead. Daud Ahmadi, spokesman for the governor, said: "Two of the foreigners' vehicles were leaving somewhere for a meeting when they were attacked by a car bomb suicide attacker. As a result, three of their people were injured. One of them was woman." The Britons' injuries were minor according to a spokeswoman for the British-led provincial reconstruction team and they had been evacuated to the military hospital in Camp Bastion. She would not confirm that one of the wounded was a woman. Lashkar Gah, capital of Helmand, has long been held up as an example of good security compared to more turbulent rural districts and Afghan forces took control in the town from British troops last summer.

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