Kabul, Afghanistan ? A Taliban suicide bomber rammed an explosives-packed van into a NATO military patrol manned mostly by U.S. troops Friday, killing one NATO soldier and eight Afghan civilians as shrapnel blasted nearby shops.

The morning attack on a busy commercial street in Kandahar also wounded another NATO soldier and eight more civilians. A dozen shops were wrecked. Vegetables spilled onto a bloodstained Khojuk Baba Road, which was littered with twisted metal from the bomber’s van.

A NATO official said the bomber struck a convoy made up primarily of U.S. soldiers but did not divulge the nationality of the dead or wounded troops. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to share the information with the media.