Bomb hits US, Afghan military convoy
(AP)
Updated: 2006-01-23 14:32

A roadside bomb struck a convoy of U.S. and Afghan military vehicles in southern Afghanistan on Monday but caused no casualties, police said.

The explosion, believed detonated remotely, damaged an Afghan vehicle but did not injure anybody, said Abdul Hakim Hunger, deputy police chief of Kandahar, a stronghold of Afghanistan's former Taliban regime.

The attack is the latest in a series of bombings in Kandahar and comes a week after a suicide attack killed 20 people at a wrestling match in a nearby town.

Monday's attack occurred near a compound for U.S. Special Forces troops, which patrol the area for militants. Hunger initially identified the convoy as a Canadian-Afghan maneuver, but later said it was comprised of American and Afghan troops.

The convoy had six vehicles — four U.S. and two Afghan. The bomb exploded after the U.S. trucks had passed, Hunger said.

The military tightened security in the region after the attack.