British attacked as Nato asks for more help in Afghanistan

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2411658,00.html

A suicide bomber threw himself at a British patrol in southern Afghanistan killing two Afghan children and wounding three British soldiers and several other passers-by.

The attack came shortly before the Secretary-General of Nato issued a fresh appeal for more troops and investment to help calm the situation in Afghanistan where a spiral of violence, including near-daily suicide attacks, have killed around 3,000 people.

Today's bombing took place in Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand province and the headquarters of the British mission to southern Afghanistan.

Witnesses said a man threw himself amongst a convoy of British vehicles, setting at least of one them on fire. A spokesman for the Afghan Interior Ministry in Kabul said that seven civilians had been hurt in the blast and that two young children had been killed.