Suicide car bomb kills Afghan civilian

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, March 12 (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber hit a NATO-led convoy on Wednesday in Afghanistan's southern city of Kandahar, killing one Afghan civilian, but causing no casualties among the force, a NATO spokesman said. NATO soldiers cordoned off the site of the attack, which targeted Canadian forces, and smoke could be seen rising from a house located nearby, witnesses said.

Afghanistan has faced rising violence in the past two years, the bloodiest period since U.S.-led and Afghan forces overthrew the Taliban government in late 2001.