Police: NATO troops accidentally kill Afghan civilian

¡¡¡¡KABUL, March 5 (Xinhua) -- The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) mistakenly killed an Afghan driver in the southern Kandahar province on Monday, local police said.

¡¡¡¡A man drove a car behind an ISAF convoy in the evening in Kandahar city, the provincial capital, Noor Ahmadi, a police officer at the killing site told Xinhua.

¡¡¡¡NATO soldiers warned the man to keep distance by signals, but the man failed, Ahmadi said.

¡¡¡¡Feeling their safety was under the threat of a possible suicide bombing, the soldiers shot the driver, who was found to be a civilian, he added.

¡¡¡¡ISAF was not immediately for comments on the incident.

¡¡¡¡Afghan officials said U.S. soldiers killed at least eight civilians and injured dozens after a suicide bombing in the eastern Nangarhar province on Sunday.

¡¡¡¡The U.S. military said the soldiers were attacked by militant fire from several directions after the blast, and it was not clear how the civilians were killed and injured.

¡¡¡¡Foreign troops have killed civilians in operations or on the road in this country from time to time, critically undermining their popularity here.