Suicide Car Bomb Attack In Afghanistan Kills Three

International peacekeeping troops in Zabul Province in southeastern Afghanistan (file photo) (Courtesy Photo) April 8, 2006 -- A suicide attacker blew up a car filled with explosives outside a base of NATO-led troops in the western Afghan city of Herat today.

Afghan officials said two civilians were killed.

A spokesman for the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said there were no casualties among the troops.

A purported spokesman for the Taliban said they were responsible for the attack.

Earlier on April 8, the U.S. military said coalition forces killed a suspected senior Taliban commander in a shootout in the southern Helmand province on March 7.

(compiled from agency reports)