Two suicide blasts struck southern Afghanistan Friday, one of them wounding two US soldiers and a US civilian outside a base for British and US troops, officials said.
The blasts in southern Afghanistan's volatile Helmand province were the latest in a series of such bombings, most of them failed, that follow a warning from the head of the ousted Taleban regime of more suicide attacks.
In one attack, a militant detonated his car bomb outside a base of a provincial reconstruction team manned by coalition troops in the provincial capital Lashkar Gah.
"Two US service members and one US civilian contractor received minor injuries today when a suicide car bomb exploded outside the main gates of the Lashkar Gah provincial reconstruction team compound," the coalition said.
Provincial governor Mohammad Daud said the blast appeared to have struck a vehicle of US-based security firm DynCorp, but this could not be confirmed. Daud blamed the attack on "al Qaeda terrorists."