KABUL ? A suicide bomber targeting U.S. soldiers killed at least six Afghan civilians in the northern Faryab province on Wednesday, the province?s governor said.
Three American soldiers and one of their translators were among the 20 wounded in the attack which happened in a crowded part of the provincial capital Maimana, Gov. Abdul Haq Shafaq said by phone.
?The foreign troops were conducting some sort of research report when they were targeted by the suicide bomber who was on foot,? he said, adding the troops were the target of the bomber.
In another attack Wednesday, NATO said two of its servicemen were killed in an explosion in a northern part of the country, but gave no further details or the exact location of the attack.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility from the resurgent Taliban which unleashes such attacks regularly against foreign and Afghan forces in the country.
Lying near the border with Turkmenistan, Faryab is a relatively safe province in the north, unlike the restive south and east, which have seen the worst cycle of daily violence since the removal of the Taliban in 2001.
Three NATO troops were killed in different attacks in the east and south of the country on Tuesday, the coalition said.
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