KABUL, March 30 (Xinhua) -- A suicide bomb attack that shocked Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province Thursday morning left the bomber dead and injured seven others including a woman and two  children, an official at the press department of Interior Ministry confirmed.

    "A Corolla car laden with explosive material attempting to target Canadian troops in Kandahar left the suicide attacker dead and injured seven civilians including a woman, two children and four men," Dad Mohammad Rasa told Xinhua.

    The incident, he said, occurred at 5th precinct of Kandahar city at 8 o'clock this morning.

    However, he said there was no casualty on Canadian troops. No officials at NATO or the U.S. military were immediately available to comment on the subject.

    Similar sluiced attack in Kandahar on Tuesday left two attackers dead.

    Taliban have intensified their activities since the onset of spring as the group's leader vowed last month to step up attacks when the weather gets warm.

    Taliban-linked insurgents in a gun battle on the U.S. dominated coalition troops in the neighboring Helmand province Wednesday morning left one American and one Canadian dead.

    Some 13 suicide bomb attacks have been registered since November 2005 while Taliban sources say the group has prepared 600 suicide bombers so far to target the Afghan and foreign troops in the post-Taliban nation.

    About 200 people including 13 American and three Canadian soldiers have lost their lives since the beginning of 2006. Enditem