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Two dead in Afghan car bombing, US soldiers hurt
AFP - 1 hour 20 minutes ago
KABUL (AFP) - - A car bomb in northern Afghanistan on Monday killed two Afghan civilians and wounded about 20 other people including two US soldiers, Afghan and US military officials said.
The bomb exploded in the town of Charikar, 50 kilometres (30 miles) north of the capital Kabul, and outside the offices of the Parwan provincial governor, Afghan officials said.
"We have two people who are killed and 17 people are wounded," health ministry spokesman Abdullah Fahim told AFP. "Two of the wounded are in critical condition."
The US military confirmed its troops had been hit by a "vehicle-borne IED (improvised explosive device)" -- military jargon that usually means a car bomb.
"We have two US soldiers and an Afghan contractor wounded," Sergeant First Class Joel Peavy told AFP from the main US military base at Bagram north of Kabul.
The soldiers had apparently been on normal security duties but information about the attack was still being collected from the scene, he said.
The US military casualties were not included in the Afghan ministry's toll.
A man who said he was a spokesman for the radical Hezb-i-Islami faction of insurgent leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar claimed responsibility for the attack in a telephone call to AFP, claiming to have killed US soldiers.
Interior ministry spokesman Zemarai Bashary told AFP that the foreign soldiers appeared to have been the target.
Two of the provincial governor's bodyguards were among the wounded, he added.
There has been a rash of suicide bombings in Afghanistan, most of them claimed by the extremist Taliban who ruled between 1996 and 2001 and are now leading an insurgency against the Western-backed government in Kabul.
Hekmatyar's faction is also involved in the violence and is most often blamed for attacks in Kabul and northern Afghanistan.
A suicide car bomb in the eastern province of Khost on Sunday killed 16 people, including 14 children, and wounded nearly 60 people, according to the NATO-led military force operating here alongside a separate US-led coalition.
It was not immediately clear who carried out the attack, which took place outside a district government compound.
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