Bombings, Including Attack on US Troops, Kill 13 Afghans

Source: Associated Press

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESSAPRIL 10, 2015, 12:10 P.M. E.D.T.

KABUL, Afghanistan — A suicide car bomber targeting a convoy of U.S. troops in eastern Afghanistan killed three Afghan civilians and wounded four on Friday, while in another eastern province, 10 people were killed when their minivan hit a roadside bomb, officials said.

The international aid group Save the Children meanwhile said five of its local staff who had been abducted several weeks ago were found dead in the southern Uruzgan province.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the convoy attack, which took place near the U.S. military base not far from the airport in Jalalabad, the capital of Nangarhar province.

No American soldiers were wounded in the bombing, said Hazrat Hussain Mashraqiwal, the spokesman for the provincial police chief.

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