21 killed including 3 NATO soldiers, 32 injured in suicide attack

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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On Wednesday, a suicide bomber attacked in a marketplace in the city of Khost, near the Pakistan border and about 90 miles southeast of the Afghan capital, Kabul. 21 people were killed and those also included three U.S. soldiers.

Major Martyn Crighton who is a spokesperson for NATO forces in Afghanistan said that a convoy in the area responded to the attack in which three Americans and one Afghan interpreter were killed. This was the third assault that targeted Americans according to the American officials.  

Besides the Afghan interpreter, 17 other Afghans civilians were also killed in accordance with the Afghan president’s office. Those 17 also included 2 police officers and the rest were civilians. He also reported that 32 civilians were injured.     

Baryalai Wakman, a spokesman for the Khost provincial government said that the attacker advanced on foot through shops and taxi stands packed with people and then blew up his explosives as he approached the Afghan and U.S. soldiers at a checkpoint.

Nearly 1,900 U.S. troops have been murdered in Afghanistan since the war began more than a decade ago. Three gunmen wearing Afghan police uniforms killed one American service member and injured 9 others in Kandahar’s Zhari district. Marine Gen. John Allen, the commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan was scheduled to vacate 23,000 U.S. troops by the end of September, leaving about 68,000 U.S. military people in the country.