Suicide bomber attacks US military vehicle

A suicide bomber rammed a car full of explosives into a US military vehicle in southern Afghanistan, causing casualties, police said.

Gen. Salim Khan, the deputy police chief for Kandahar city, near where the attack occurred, said at least three US soldiers were killed in the attack, but it was not possible to immediately confirm this with the US military.

“The US vehicle was blown up in the suicide attack,” Khan said.

A reporter at the scene said he saw three American soldiers being carried on stretchers into a US military helicopter. Two other US helicopters were hovering overhead and several US military vehicles also had arrived at the site.

The US military could not be immediately reached for comment on the police report of fatalities.

Earlier, a US military spokesman in Kabul, Lt. Col. Jerry O’Hara, said he had not heard of the attack.