Suicide Blast Targets Foreign Troop Convoy In Afghanistan

Suicide Blast Targets Foreign Troop Convoy In Afghanistan

Jalalabad, AFGHANISTAN

February 5, 2009, (AFP)--

A suicide car bomb struck a foreign troop convoy in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday, officials said.

The suicide bomber detonated a vehicle laden with explosives near a convoy of international soldiers outside Jalalabad, the capital of Nangarahr province, said Zemarai Bashary, Afghan interior ministry spokesman.

"There has been a suicide car bomb attack against international forces but at this stage we have no information if it caused any casualties to the troops," the spokesman told AFP.

Bashary said the blast caused no civilian casualties - a common feature of most insurgent attacks against Afghan and foreign forces.

The area was cordoned off by Afghan police and foreign military personnel, and media weren't allowed access to the blast site, an AFP reporter said.

Bashary didn't specify if the targeted troops were from NATO or a U.S.-led coalition, but locals said they were American forces.

The U.S. military said it was checking the reports.

Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, a spokesman for the provincial governor, said the attack targeted U.S. soldiers who were returning from an Afghan army base.

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