Two US embassy officials have been hurt in a roadside bomb that hit their convoy near the Afghan capital, a spokesman says. The blast near Kabul came hours after a bomb attack killed four US soldiers in the restive Zabul province, in the southern part of the country. "I can confirm that two American personnel of the US embassy were slightly hurt while on a routine embassy mission," Michael Macy, a US embassy spokesman told Reuters.
He declined to identify the two and also refused to say if the US ambassador to Afghanistan, Ronald Neumann, was in the convoy when the blast occurred. He says an investigation has been launched to find out who was behind the attack. Afghan Interior Ministry spokesman Lutfullah Mashal says the incident occurred on a dirt road in Paghman, a resort area located some 20 kilometres west of the capital.