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Two die in Kabul suicide car bomb Five die in Kabul suicide attack
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A suicide car bombing near an American military base in the Afghan capital Kabul has killed at least two people, including a child, officials say. A suicide car bomber has struck in the Afghan capital, Kabul, killing four civilians and an American soldier.
The US military initially said two soldiers had been killed, but later corrected the report to say five soldiers were among the injured. Nearly 20 others were injured in the blast near a US base and the German embassy. A number of German nationals are said to be among the wounded.
The attack was carried out on a small road between US base Camp Eggers and the German embassy. A witness told the BBC the blast had set fire to several cars and a tanker.
A fuel tanker and several cars were burning as the injured were taken away. In a later attack in eastern Nangarhar province a civilian died and six people were hurt, including three policemen. The Taleban claimed both attacks.
The BBC's Martin Patience in Kabul says an eyewitness saw a suicide car bomber launch the attack. A child was among the dead in Saturday's first bombing on a small road between an American base, Camp Eggers, and the German embassy in the central Kabul district of Wazir Akbar Khan.
The Taleban have reportedly claimed responsibility for Saturday morning's blast in the central district of Wazir Akbar Khan. There was confusion earlier over casualty figures as the US military said two soldiers had been killed.
'Screaming' It then said five US soldiers and an American civilian had been injured and that one of the wounded personnel died later.
The AP news agency said a spokesman for the militant group, Zabiullah Mujahid, claimed a suicide bomber had carried out the attack in a Toyota Corolla. 'Cowardly'
A spokesman for the German foreign ministry in Berlin said several embassy workers had been hurt.
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Early reports said two US soldiers had died and four US soldiers had received non-life threatening injuries from shattered glass and debris, and that parts of the embassy had caught fire. German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said the suicide attack - the first to hit Kabul this year - was a "cowardly act" that would not deter Berlin.
However, the military spokesman later said that toll was based on information which had not been verified and that no soldiers had died. Germany has 3,200 troops in Afghanistan, mainly in the country's north.
The US base is the headquarters for soldiers training Afghan police and army forces. The heavily-guarded US base is the headquarters for soldiers training Afghan police and army forces.
Dozens of armed Afghan security personnel guard the narrow street and blast walls of concrete and sand-filled mesh-wire boxes line the road. Reuters news agency reported that Afghan relatives of the dead had gathered screaming and crying outside a nearby hospital.
Reuters news agency reported that relatives of the dead had gathered outside a nearby hospital.
A middle-aged woman was beating her head and screaming that her son had died and another man was crying, saying his son had also been killed.
Despite the heavy security in the district, which houses many embassies and offices of international organisations, the district has been attacked before.Despite the heavy security in the district, which houses many embassies and offices of international organisations, the district has been attacked before.
In November, four Afghans died in another blast nearby, outside the American embassy. In November four Afghans were killed by a suicide bomber outside the US embassy.
In Saturday's second attack, a suicide bomber killed a civilian while attempting to ram his vehicle into a convoy of Nato troops and Afghan police in Chaparhar district, Nangarhar province.
A Taleban spokesman, Zabiullah Mujahid, told AP news agency a suicide bomber had carried out the Kabul attack in a Toyota Corolla. The militant group later claimed the second blast too.
The militants' influence has spread from their traditional heartlands in the south and east to areas closer to the capital.The militants' influence has spread from their traditional heartlands in the south and east to areas closer to the capital.
But our correspondent says that with increased police checkpoints throughout the city, there were fewer attacks inside Kabul in 2008 than in the previous year. But the BBC's Martin Patience says that with increased police checkpoints throughout the city, there were fewer attacks inside Kabul in 2008 than in the previous year.
US President-elect Barack Obama has pledged to make Afghanistan a foreign policy priority after he comes to office on Tuesday and is expected to approve the doubling of US troops in the country from the 30,000 at present.US President-elect Barack Obama has pledged to make Afghanistan a foreign policy priority after he comes to office on Tuesday and is expected to approve the doubling of US troops in the country from the 30,000 at present.
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