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Pro-Taliban forces have been resurgent against Afghan and foreign forces in recent months Three civilians and three soldiers serving with Nato-led forces in Afghanistan have been killed in a suicide car bomb attack on a military convoy, officials have said. The bomber drove an explosives-laden vehicle into a military convoy in the eastern Kapisa province on Tuesday, lieutenant commander Christopher Hall, a Nato spokesman, said. Three US troops serving with Nato's International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) were killed in the blast in the Sayat district, technical sergeant Chuck Marsh, a US military spokesman, said. Two other civilians were hurt in the attack, Afghanistan's interior ministry said in a statement. A spokesman for Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a pro-Taliban leader, said his Hezb-e-Islami group had planned the attack. Attacks increase Suicide bombings are a favoured method of attack for Taliban fighters opposed to the Afghan government and the presence of foreign troops in the country. US military officials have said they believe such bomb attacks could rise by 50 per cent this year. The attack comes a day after US forces said they killed eight suspected Taliban members in fighting in Uruzgan province. The coalition said two of its troops and three Afghan policemen were wounded during the clash. The Taliban have been particularly resurgent in southern Afghanistan in recent months. Barack Obama, the US president, has committed thousands more American troops to the country in an attempt to push back the Taliban.

Source: Agencies