(AKI) - A suicide car bomber on Monday struck a governor's compound north of the Afghan capital, Kabul, killing two civilians and wounding two US soldiers. More than a dozen people were reported to have been injured in the attack that targeted a meeting between US troops and the governor of Parwan province in the local capital of Charikar.A US vehicle was hit by the blast but American forces inside the complex were not injured.
An Interior Ministry spokesman Zemarai Bashary told reporters that no provincial officials were killed in the attack.
The attack occurred only a day after 14 Afghan school children were killed when an explosives-laden truck blew up near an Afghan and US military outpost.
Meanwhile, two bombings in the southern province of Kandahar on Monday reportedly killed three civilians and wounded 20 others.