Taliban Bomber Kills 2 Americans in Southern Afghanistan<br />2, 2017<br />KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — A Taliban suicide bomber rammed his vehicle into a NATO convoy in the southern<br />Afghan city of Kandahar on Wednesday, killing two American soldiers, the Pentagon said.<br />Zia Durani, a spokesman for the governor of Kandahar, said the convoy had come under attack while traveling in the area<br />of Shorandam, which lies on the main road from Kandahar Airfield, one of the largest American bases in the country.<br />As Taliban violence has worsened around the country, the 8,700 American troops who remain in Afghanistan as part<br />of the NATO mission have been trying to support Afghan security forces, which are increasingly in distress.<br />Tadamichi Yamamoto said that This attack deliberately targeting civilians at prayer can have no justification whatsoever,<br />At the scene of the attack, at least four helicopters landed to evacuate the casualties,<br />and firefighters arrived to extinguish one of the armored vehicles that was in flames.<br />Janan Agha said that I heard loud explosion and then saw one of the armored vehicles in flames,<br />In western Afghanistan, officials said the death toll of a suicide bombing at a Shiite mosque on Tuesday had increased to 32 killed and 66 wounded.
