NATO troops kill two Afghan civilians

KANDAHAR: NATO soldiers killed two Afghan civilians Thursday after opening fire on a car which the force said had tried to attack a patrol in the southern city of Kandahar, officials said.

NATO's International Security Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said the troops fired after the vehicle "made a deliberate effort to target an ISAF dismounted patrol" but local police said it was a traffic accident.

"Sadly two civilians have been killed and two others including a 16-year-old national have been injured," ISAF spokesman Major Tim James told AFP in the capital Kabul.