HERAT, Dec 20: Three Italian soldiers were wounded on Tuesday in an apparent suicide attack against Nato-led troops in Afghanistan’s western city of Herat, military and government officials said.

A purported spokesman for the ousted Taliban government claimed responsibility for the blast, which struck a convoy of Nato’s International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) on the main road to the city’s airport.

“There was a vehicle that pulled up alongside and blew up next to one of our vehicles,” ISAF spokesman Andy Elmes said.

“Three Italian soldiers working with ISAF have been lightly injured,” he said.

“It is a possible suicide attack,” an interior ministry spokesman said.—Agencies