KABUL: A suicide bomber in a vehicle killed three US troops and a military contractor on Monday while targeting their convoy near Bagram Air Base, officials said, after the Taliban claimed responsibility for the blast. According to Nato, the blast also wounded three US troops in what is the deadliest attack on American forces in Afghanistan so far this year. Officials did not immediately release the names of those killed, or the nationality of the contractor. They added that one armoured personnel carrier had been ‘completely destroyed.’The blast brings to seven the number of US troops killed in Afghanistan so far this year. The US now has some 14,000 troops in Afghanistan, most of them deployed to train and advise Afghan counterparts.

Source: Pakistan Today April 09, 2019 12:11 UTC