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Kabul 'suicide attack' kills two | Kabul 'suicide attack' kills two |
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A suicide attack near the Afghan capital Kabul has killed two people, including one foreign soldier. | |
Eight others were said to have been injured, including two civilians. | |
The attack appears to have targeted a US convoy heading for a prison on the capital's eastern outskirts, police official Ali Shah Paktiwal said. | |
The suicide attacker used a car which was badly damaged, Mr Paktiwal said, adding that two vehicles belonging to the US military were also destroyed. | The suicide attacker used a car which was badly damaged, Mr Paktiwal said, adding that two vehicles belonging to the US military were also destroyed. |
The suicide attacker drove into a road in a Toyota Corolla near Kabul's Puli Charkhi prison where American soldiers are building a new wing to accommodate prisoners who will be transferred from Guantanamo Bay, Mr Paktiwal said. | The suicide attacker drove into a road in a Toyota Corolla near Kabul's Puli Charkhi prison where American soldiers are building a new wing to accommodate prisoners who will be transferred from Guantanamo Bay, Mr Paktiwal said. |
Both the attacker and his car were blown up in the explosion, he added. | Both the attacker and his car were blown up in the explosion, he added. |
Mr Paktiwal said both of the people killed were Americans. But the Afghan interior minister said one of the dead was American, and the other an Afghan national. | |
Nobody has claimed responsibility for the attack yet. | Nobody has claimed responsibility for the attack yet. |
The BBC's Charles Haviland in Kabul says this is the third lethal bombing in Kabul in the space of two weeks. | |
Eleven days ago, a bomb attack on an Afghan police bus in Kabul killed up to 35 people and injured more. | |
It was the most devastating bomb attack in Kabul since the Taleban were ousted in 2001. | It was the most devastating bomb attack in Kabul since the Taleban were ousted in 2001. |
Taleban rebels said they had carried out the attack. |