Two dead in suicide attack on NATO convoy

The attack took place less than a kilometre from the U.S. Embassy.

U.S. soldiers attend to a wounded soldier at the site of a blast in Kabul on Tuesday. A suicide bomber attacked a convoy of foreign troops serving with NATO on the main road running between Kabul's airport and the U.S. Embassy, police and security officials said.

The Taliban launched a suicide car bomb attack on a NATO military convoy in Afghanistan’s capital on Tuesday, killing two people and wounding 26 others, including two U.S. soldiers, officials said. The blast sent a huge plume of black smoke over the city and scattered glass and metal across the main highway to Kabul’s airport.

Kabul deputy police chief Sayed Gulagha said a suicide bomber struck the convoy with a vehicle packed with explosives. Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqqi said two Afghan civilians were killed and at least 24 wounded, some critically.

A NATO spokeswoman said two American soldiers sustained minor injuries in the attack.