A suicide car bomber struck a convoy of civilian vehicles outside a US military base in Kabul early today, wounding three Afghans and causing several casualties among foreigners, police said.
The head of criminal investigations for Kabul police said three to four foreign casualties had been taken from the scene by Western troops, but he could give no details of their wounds.
A damaged white civilian vehicle could be seen at the debris-strewn blast site on a main road about 100 metres from Camp Phoenix, a large US military base also used by troops from other Nato countries near the airport.
Witnesses said a second civilian vehicle that was destroyed in the blast had been removed, while US troops in armoured vehicles blocked off the site.
Violence in Afghanistan this year has reached the worst levels of the eight-year-old war, and militants have staged a number of attacks in the capital in recent months.
Reuters
