Three U.S. soldiers injured after military convoy hit by bomb in Afghanistan

By The Associated Press

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KABUL, Afghanistan — A bomb hit a U.S. military convoy in southeastern Afghanistan yesterday, injuring three American troops and an Afghan soldier, the military said.

The bomb exploded near the soldiers' Humvee near Qalat, the capital of Zabul province, a U.S. military statement said.

Two U.S. soldiers were evacuated to the American base at Kandahar with shrapnel injuries and a possible concussion, respectively. Both were in stable condition, the statement said.

The third American and a soldier from the Afghan National Army were treated at the scene for cuts.

The United States has some 17,000 troops in Afghanistan hunting remnants of the Taliban regime ousted three years ago as well as al-Qaida militants and followers of renegade warlords.

In another incident, U.S.-led forces killed an "enemy person" during a raid in Khost, near the Pakistani border, the military said.

U.S. spokesman Maj. Mark McCann gave no information on why the man was targeted. "I can only say that the forces who conducted the operation knew what they were doing."

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