At least eight others were wounded in the attack. Twelve of the dead NATO troops are reported to be US service members. Canadian news outlets say one of the service members was from Canada.
The suicide car bomb went off next to an armoured bus carrying NATO forces in Kabul, turning the heavily armed vehicle on its side and engulfing it in flames. The attack came before noon on a wide busy road near the national museum and not far from the parliament and a NATO base. Ambulances and NATO personnel and helicopters rushed to the scene to attend to the living and the dead.
A Pentagon spokesman, Army Lt. Col. Jim Gregory, confirmed all 13 servicemembers killed were Americans. "We did lose 13 Americans today," he said.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.
VOA
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