A car bomb blew up as its driver tried to ram a U.S. military convoy in Afghanistan on Wednesday, while in a separate incident, two Canadian soldiers were wounded in a roadside blast. The attacks came as the commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan met Afghan and Pakistani commanders for security talks including discussions of how to combat a wave of bombings.Jalalabad police spokesman Abdul Ghafour said U.S. troops had shot dead the suicide car-bomber as he tried to ram a convoy and seconds later his explosives detonated. U.S. military spokeswoman Lieutenant Tamara Lawrence said the driver was killed in a blast as he approached the U.S. convoy. "Indications we have now is that no shots were fired," Lawrence said.
A roadside blast hit a Canadian forces vehicle in the southern province of Helmand, wounding two soldiers. One was slightly wounded and the other was under observation for a wound that was not life-threatening, said Canadian forces spokeswoman Captain Julie Roberge. The blast happened in an area in which a Canadian and an American soldier were killed during a Taliban attack on a base last month.
A rocket landed in central Kabul late on Wednesday near the U.S. embassy and U.S. and other military bases, slightly wounding an Afghan guard at a state television compound, police said. A U.S. spokesman said in Washington all U.S. employees were accounted for. It was the second rocket to hit the capital in a week. No one was hurt when a rocket hit a Defence Ministry compound in the city centre on Wednesday last week.