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Four killed in Afghan suicide bombing
 KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Four Afghan employees of a US-owned private security firm were killed in a suicide attack near a base housing thousands of international troops on Sunday, police said. The attacker, carrying explosives on a motorbike, targeted a US Protection and Investigations (USPI) vehicle just a few hundred yards from Kandahar airfield, a base for the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force.There was a suicide attack against a vehicle of the USPI. Three guards and a driver were killed and another guard was injured, a police officer at a nearby checkpost told AFP. The bombing in this volatile southern city was the second suicide attack in as many days after eight people, mostly police, were killed in a blast in the eastern city of Khost. Posted by: Steve White 2007-04-16 |
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