Suicide Bomb Kills Five US Troops in Afghanistan

World | June 13, 2005, Monday // 00:00

A suicide bomber drove a car packed with explosives into a US military convoy in southern Afghanistan on Monday, killing at least five American soldiers, police said. The blast came from a taxi as a US military convoy was heading down a main road to the west of Kandahar city, said a senior police officer, who did no want to be identified. "The latest report I have is that five people in the vehicle that was hit by the suicide car have been killed," he said. "This was a suicide attack. The person in the car that carried out the act has been torn into pieces."

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