Six people, including an American soldier, were killed in a suicide car bomb targeting a US military convoy in Kabul as two police officers were killed elsewhere in Afghanistan's south- east, REPORTED DPA. Police say an explosive-laden car rammed into a US military convoy on the road to the Kabul International Airport, causing a huge blast around 8:00 am (0330 GMT). The US-led coalition forces said one of their soldiers was killed in the attack when his vehicle was hit by a car bomb. Kabul police said two US miliary vehicles as well as a number of civilians vehicles were destroyed in the attack. The Afghan Interior Ministry said in a statement five civilians were killed and five others were wounded in the incident. The Taliban have claimed responsibility with its spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid saying seven foreign soldiers were killed in the blast. "One of our Mujahideen brothers, named Abdul Rahman, from Kabul carried out the attack using a car and killed seven foreign troops," Mujahid told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa. This is the third suicide attack since September 29 to hit Kabul. Two previous attacks on the Afghan army and police killed more than 40 people. Elsewhere, two police officers were killed in a roadside bomb blast in the south-eastern Khost province Saturday morning, a police official Sakhi Mir reported. Two policemen were also wounded in the attack 10 kilometres to the north of Khost city.
