Story Highlights• Suicide bomber attacks U.S. Embassy convoy in Kabul• Several people injured including one U.S. citizen. Police say three dead. Adjust font size:
    KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- A suicide bomber attacked a U.S. Embassy convoy in Kabul on Monday morning on a busy highway injuring several people, an embassy spokesman told CNN. "There were several injuries, including one American who was evacuated and is being treated at this time," said Joe Mellott, a U.S. Embassy spokesman. "We have had reports that some innocent Afghan bystanders were injured or possibly killed." In their accounts of the incident, Kabul police and Western sources said at least three people died in the attack that they said hit a U.N. vehicle. "The whole area has been sealed off by NATO ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) troops," CNN's Nic Robertson reported. "They've sealed off a very large section of the road." Robertson said it is not uncommon for suicide bombers to target international convoys along the route, known as Jalalabad Road, which connects the city to the sprawling Bagram airbase complex. Last month, a suicide bomber attacked the entrance to Bagram -- the nerve center of military coalition operations in Afghanistan -- during a visit by U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, killing up to 23 people and wounding 20 more. |
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