August 30, 2007	Thursday	Sha'aban 16, 1428

KHOST, Aug 29: A suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowded bazaar in eastern Afghanistan Wednesday, killing four civilians and two Afghan soldiers, a provincial governor said.

About a dozen other people, most of them civilians, were wounded in the attack near the Pakistani border, Paktika governor Mohammad Akram Khepelwak said.

The blast was the second in as many days in the restive region. Three international soldiers were killed in a similar bombing at a bridge construction site on Tuesday. The target of the attack appeared to be Afghan soldiers who were in the bazaar shopping, reports said.—AFP