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At least 20 people have been killed in an attack on a US convoy passing through a busy Afghan market.
More than 55 other civilians were hurt in the attack in the eastern province of Nangarhar on Thursday morning, officials said.
One 13-year-old child died in hospital from his injuries and the toll is expected to rise.
A US military spokesman said that a US soldier also died.
According to Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, a spokesman for the provincial governor, a bomber rammed his vehicle into the convoy as it traveled through the Bati Kot district.
Market blast
Ghafoor Khan, a spokesman for the provincial police chief, said that the market was crowded with people buying and selling sheep, cows, goats and other animals at the time.
Khaibar Mohamand, a local governor, said: "At least nine civilians are killed here on the spot."
Al Jazeera's David Chater, reporting from Kandahar, said that the Taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack.
"The Taliban says the attack was carried out by the Tora Bora Mujahidin. This is unusual because this whole area has not been subject to these sorts of attacks before, but this time the Taliban has opened up another front near Jalalabad," he said.
"It seems the Taliban is proving much more resilient than anybody thought. It is showing its reach and depth in this latest attack. Everybody admits that the strategy here in Afghanistan is a failure and the country is, in effect, spiraling downwards."
The blast comes a day after an intelligence agency in Kandahar province was attacked. At least seven people died in that bomb attack.
PHOTO CAPTION
An Afghan man look at a damaged vehicle after a car bomb exploded next to an Afghan government office in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2008.
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