Suicide bomber kills 2 U.S. troops in Afghanistan

Updated at: 1835 PST, Friday, October 02, 2009

KABUL: A suicide bomber struck a convoy of U.S. forces in southern Afghanistan on Friday, killing two U.S. service members, a press officer for U.S. and NATO-led troops said. Captain Elizabeth Mathias gave no further details of the attack. Insurgents increasingly rely on suicide attacks and roadside bombs in Afghanistan, where violence has reached its worst levels since the start of the eight-year-old war. A suicide bomber killed one American service member in a similar attack on a convoy on Wednesday in Khost province in the southeast.