A suicide bomber aboard a
motorbike blew himself up in a military base Tuesday, killing
some 10 people including three U.S. soldiers, police and local
TV reports said.
Kabul police chief Gen. Zahir Zahir said that "at least
four foreign citizens were killed and six wounded." Tolo tv said
the foreigners were three American soldiers and an interpreter.
A Taliban spokesman claimed responsibility for the blast,
claiming that as many as 15 foreigners had been killed.
Kabul police spokesman Hashmat Stekzai said "the attack
happened in an anti-drugs base bordering with a foreign solders'
base".
A U.S. Embassy statement did not specifically confirm
Americans were killed in the attack, but condemned what it
called "the terrorist attack that caused the death of five
foreign security guards".
"Attacks like this will not discourage Afghans and the
international community from working together for a further
development of Afghanistan," said the U.S. Embassy statement.
In Pastori in the southwest province of Paktika, meanwhile,
a suicide bomber detonated an explosive prematurely, killing
himself and five comrades and wounding seven others, the Pajhwok
news agency said.
There was no immediate comment from the Taliban on the
own-goal blast.
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