At least 10 students among 13 killed, as suicide bomber targets passing US military convoy.

A suicide bomber has killed at least 13 people, including 10 school children, outside a market in Afghanistan's eastern Paktia province, police say.

Two foreign soldiers and a local policeman were among those killed in the blast on Monday.

The police said the attacker was targeting a passing US military patrol.

General Zelmia Oryakhail, the provincial police chief of the province, said the bomber was on a motorbike and detonated his explosives outside the market in Samkani district as American forces passed.

He said a local school had just let students out for lunch.

Oryakhail said 15 other students were wounded. He did not say how old they were.

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Map of Afghanistan locating Paktia province

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