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Khost suicide bomb: Nato troops among dead in Afghan blast | Khost suicide bomb: Nato troops among dead in Afghan blast |
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A suicide bombing in the eastern Afghan city of Khost has killed at least 14 people, three of them Nato soldiers, officials say. | |
Nato did not confirm the nationalities of the soldiers, but correspondents say US troops operate in the area. | |
Taliban insurgents said they carried out the attack, which also killed four Afghan police. | |
Witnesses said the attacker waited for troops to leave their vehicles before detonating the bomb. | |
At least six civilians were also killed and 60 people were wounded in the attack. | |
The bomber targeted a coalition convoy passing through a crowded part of Khost, reports the BBC's Quentin Sommerville in Kabul. | |
Spike in violence | |
He says American troops serve in the area - although an announcement on the nationality of the soldiers is still awaited. | He says American troops serve in the area - although an announcement on the nationality of the soldiers is still awaited. |
Khost, like other parts of eastern Afghanistan, has seen a dramatic rise in violence. | Khost, like other parts of eastern Afghanistan, has seen a dramatic rise in violence. |
In June, a suicide bomber killed 21 people including three US troops and a local interpreter in the city. | |
The attack drove a motorcycle laden with explosions to a joint Nato-Afghan military checkpoint set up in a crowded bazaar. | |
The Taliban-affiliated Haqqani network regularly mount large-scale attacks and suicide bombings in the area. | The Taliban-affiliated Haqqani network regularly mount large-scale attacks and suicide bombings in the area. |
Over the weekend, a shooting at a checkpoint in eastern Afghanistan took the US military's death toll in the war past 2,000. | |
Three US soldiers and contractor were killed in the attack in Wardak province on Saturday, along with three Afghan soldiers. |