There has been a suicide car bomb attack outside the US military base in the capital of the Afghan province of Helmand, Lashkar Gah, officials say. The provincial governor told the BBC the attack was aimed at Dyncorp, a US company training the Afghan police force in poppy eradication work. The US military says three US nationals suffered minor injuries. The BBC's Alistair Leithead in Kabul says this is the first such attack on the US base in Lashkar Gah. Of the three injured Americans, two were military personnel and one a civilian contractor, a US military statement said. It said the attacker died in the blast which completely destroyed his vehicle and a nearby truck. Britain is preparing to deploy 3,300 troops in Helmand in the coming months. The governor said the attack was the work of "al Qaeda and terrorists".
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