A suicide bomber targeting a US-led coalition convoy killed at least 10 Afghan civilians and an American soldier in eastern Afghanistan Thursday, wounding 67 others, officials said.
  
"One American soldier was wounded in the bombing and he died during transportation," said Major John Redfield, a spokesman for the coalition.
  
Afghan authorities said at least 10 Afghan civilians were killed, nine of them at the scene of the blast and another 67 were taken to two hospitals.
  
No one claimed responsibility for the bombing but almost all attacks against Afghan and foreign forces in the region are claimed by Islamic militants from the Taliban regime that was ousted from power in late 2001.
  
"At least nine civilians are killed here on the spot," Khaibar Mohmand, the governor of Batikot district, in Nangarhar province, told AFP.
  
A 13-year-old child died in hospital and six other bodies were brought to the provincial public health hospital, regional health ministry official Ajmal Pardais told AFP.
  
It was not immediately clear if the six fatalities were in addition to those who died at the scene.
  
The attacker detonated an explosives-laden vehicle close to the convoy on the road between the town of Torkham, on the Pakistani border, and the provincial capital city of Jalalabad, Mohmand said.
  
The incident took place near a fruit and livestock market in an area often packed with people.
  
"We have admitted at least 67 civilians wounded in two hospitals, the public health hospital in Jalalabad and a district hospital," Pardais said.
  
Mohmand said the number of casualties could rise.
  
On Wednesday a bomb-filled tanker exploded outside the office of the provincial council in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, killing six people and wounding 42.
  
Wali Karzai, brother of President Hamid Karzai and head of the council, was in the building at the time but was unharmed.
  
Among the dead were three intelligence employees and three passers-by including a woman.
  
The Taliban were in government between 1996 and 2001 when they were removed in a US-led invasion for sheltering their Al-Qaeda allies after the September 11 attacks in the United States.
  
Insurgent attacks are at a record level this year, despite the presence of tens of thousands of international troops and the growing strength of the Afghan security forces.