Officials: Suicide attacker kills 3 NATO forces, 4 Afghan police

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• The Taliban claims responsibility for the attack


• The nationalities of the NATO service members were not immediately available


• The bomber rode an explosives-packed motorcycle, an Afghan official says

Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- A suicide attack in eastern Afghanistan Monday killed 11 people, including three NATO service members and four Afghan police, and wounded 57 others, a spokesman for the Afghan interior ministry said.

The bomber targeted a joint patrol of ISAF forces and Afghan police, using an explosives-packed motorcycle, according to Sediq Seddiqi, a spokesman for the ministry, which condemned the attack.

NATO's International Security Assistance Force confirmed the attack, saying three ISAF service members and their interpreter died in a bombing in eastern Afghanistan Monday.

Their nationalities of the ISAF forces were not immediately available.

Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid claimed responsibility for the attack, saying a suicide bomber had killed eight foreign forces and six Afghan security forces. The Taliban regularly reports higher casualty figures than either NATO or the Afghan government.

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