Violence continues in Afghanistan
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The US military says a helicopter belonging to coalition troops was shot down by small-arms fire south of the Afghan capital on wednesday.
The pilots landed the UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter safely and evacuated all personnel before it caught fire.
The incident happened in the Kharwar district of Logar province, where Taliban militants are known to be active.
Elsewhere, a suicide car bomber hit a convoy of NATO forces wounding two Canadian soldiers, three policemen and two civilians on a road near the southern town of Spin Boldak.
Hours later, the governor of southwestern Nimroz survived a suicide attack, but three of his bodyguards and a civilian were killed.
The bomber was in a car and struck into the convoy that was taking the governor to inspect a road construction project.
