Child killed as suicide car bomb targets Afghan police

KABUL, May 7 (Xinhua) -- A suicide car blast attack occurred near a checkpoint of Afghan border police in eastern province of Khost Wednesday left one child killed and three move civilians injured, the police said.

A suicide bomber exploded his explosive-laden car at around 3 p.m. local time near a checkpoint of border police, some two km west of the provincial capital Khost city, the provincial police spokesman Wazir Badshah told Xinhua.

The police said the attacker, who also died in the blast, just missed the intended target and caused no casualties to the police.

This is the second bomb attack in Khost where a roadside bombing Wednesday morning killed a local senior police officer and his nephew.

There has been no immediate responsibility claim but such attacks are usually blamed on anti-government insurgents, who had conducted over 140 suicide attacks last year in the war-ravaged Afghanistan.