A suicide bombing, which was apparently targeting NATO troops, injured three civilians in Logar province of central Afghanistan on Saturday, a local official said.

"The incident took place in Charkh district in the morning, when a man blew himself up near a convoy of NATO forces," the deputy provincial governor Abdul Ghias Patang told Xinhua.

There were no casualties of the NATO troops, he added.

A purported Taliban spokesman Qari Yousuf Ahmadi said a Taliban fighter had carried out the attack.

Because of inferiority in military equipment and tactics, Taliban and other militants have frequently carried suicide bombings towards foreign and government targets.

However, attackers frequently missed targets, only killing themselves or causing civilian casualties.

Meanwhile, earlier on Saturday, an explosion toward a military vehicle slightly injured an Afghan soldier in Afghan capital Kabul.

Due to rising Taliban-linked violence this year, Afghanistan has plunged into the worst spate of bloodshed since the Taliban regime was toppled down nearly five years ago.

Over 3,700 people, mostly Taliban militants, have been killed in this volatile country this year.

Source: Xinhua