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KABUL : A suicide car bomb against a US military convoy in Kabul Saturday killed one soldier with the US-led coalition and four Afghan civilians, the coalition force and Afghan government said.
"One coalition soldier was killed," a spokesman for the force, Sergeant Dean Welch, told AFP.
He could not immediately say how many were hurt.
The interior ministry said four Afghan civilians were killed and five wounded.
The blast, similar to a string of attacks by the extremist Taliban movement, set several vehicles on fire and plumes of thick, black smoke spewed into the air.
Wreckage was strewn across a wide area.
Afghan television showed pictures of a body in military uniform lying on the ground. An AFP reporter at the scene saw a US soldier being treated for injuries.
"There was a suicide bombing in a car. The attack was on American forces," interior ministry spokesman Zemarai Bashary told AFP.
There were several dead and wounded, he said, without being able to give details.
Kabul has been struck by a series of Taliban suicide attacks this year.
The last was on Tuesday and killed 13 people including a mother and her two children going to school.
The blast destroyed a police bus.
Four days earlier a similar blast destroyed a military bus, killing 30 people in one of the deadliest attacks in an insurgency being waged by the extremist Taliban movement. - AFP/ch
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