Five US troops killed in Afghanistan attack

A suicide bomber drove a car packed with explosives into a US military convoy in southern Afghanistan today and killed at least…

A suicide bomber drove a car packed with explosives into a US military convoy in southern Afghanistan today and killed at least five US soldiers.

The blast came from a taxi as a US military convoy was heading down a main road to the west of Kandahar city, a police spokesman said.

"This was a suicide attack. The person in the car that carried out the act has been torn into pieces," he said.

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