WORLD NEWS

Two separate suicide bombs struck Afghanistan, one of them against a US-led military base, leaving one person dead and several wounded. The Taliban claimed responsibility for an attack in a district of Khost province but there was no immediate claim of responsibility for one in Helmand province. In Khost, two attackers wearing military uniforms had tried to enter the international military base in Gurbuz district. One of them walked out of the car and opened fire on police and the other exploded the car. In Helmand, a bomber who was on foot blew himself up near a police vehicle in the provincial capital of Lashkar Gah. Meanwhile, fourteen Afghans, including women and children, were killed and 40 hurt when a truck plunged off a mountain road into a valley. President Hamid Karzai ordered military helicopters to the scene of the accident in Badakhshan province to evacuate the casualties.