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| Suicide bomber wounds 4 US soldiers in Afghanistan |
| 2005-06-14 |
| A suicide bomber rammed a car packed with explosives into a US military vehicle in southern Afghanistan on Monday, killing himself and wounding four American soldiers, one seriously, the US military said. The military denied Afghan police and army reports that at least five Americans had been killed in the attack in Mirwais Mina, about 10 km from the city of Kandahar. Taliban guerrillas claimed responsibility for the attack. Taliban spokesman Abdul Latif Hakimi said it had been a suicide attack by a local named Haji Juma. "This was our work," he said. A Reuters Television News cameraman near the scene saw a US helicopter evacuating casualties. The troops were from a US Provincial Reconstruction Team based in Kandahar and the blast occurred as they were returning to their base from a patrol. US military spokesman Colonel Jim Yonts said the attack had been carried out by a suicide bomber who drove a car packed with a large quantity of explosives into a US military vehicle. "The vehicle was struck by a suicide bomber who detonated his vehicle with the explosives," he said. Yonts said one of the US soldiers was seriously hurt, but his injuries did not appear to be life-threatening. The others were in stable condition. |
| Posted by:Fred |