Kabul: At least 21 people, including three American soldiers, were killed on Wednesday by a suicide bomber who attacked an American and Afghan military checkpoint in this provincial capital, Afghan officials said.
Most of the victims were Afghan civilians, including some children, who died when the bomber, believed to have been wearing a suicide vest, attacked a crowd at a checkpoint where American and Afghan soldiers were conducting biometric surveys of local residents.
The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force said in a statement that three of its service members were killed in an incident in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday.
Separately, Afghan officials and news reports from Washington said the foreign victims in the Khost incident were American soldiers.
Officials at two Afghan hospitals said a total of 18 civilian dead were brought to those facilities, including two policemen and some children. NATO and Afghan military casualties would normally be evacuated to military facilities.
Although no one has yet claimed the responsibility of the attack, but such attacks bore the hallmarks of Afghan Taliban.
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