Suicide Attack On US Military Convoy Kills At Least 8 Troops, 1 Child In Afghanistan

Suicide Attack on US Military Convoy Kills at Least 8 Troops, 1 Child in Afghanistan

A suicide blast hit a US military vehicle in the eastern Afghan province of Logar on Thursday, leaving at least eight servicemen and one child dead, a Sputnik correspondent has learned

KABUL (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 19th September, 2019) A suicide blast hit a US military vehicle in the eastern Afghan province of Logar on Thursday, leaving at least eight servicemen and one child dead, a Sputnik correspondent has learned.

"Today at 6:00 p.m. [13:30 GMT] a suicide attacker exploded himself on US troops' convoy. As a result of the attack, one six-year-old child was killed and his mother injured at Khuzdar bazaar in Logar province," a spokesman for the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team told Sputnik.

The Taliban movement has issued a statement saying that the attack claimed the lives of eight US soldiers and destroyed two vehicles.

Several other soldiers sustained injuries, the Sputnik correspondent reported.