Afghan truck bomb kills 2, foreign troops among 70 wounded

KABUL - A suicide truck bomb killed two people and wounded more than 70 in volatile eastern Afghanistan on Friday, officials said, with several foreign troops among those injured.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the bombing in Maidan Shahr, the provincial capital of Wardak province, 35 km (22 miles) southwest of the capital, Kabul, but it was unclear what the target was.
A spokesman for the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said fewer than six coalition troops had sustained minor injuries in the bombing close to the provincial governor@@@s office, but gave no further details.
The bomber detonated explosives packed into a water tanker truck about 40 meters from a joint operations center run by Afghan and coalition troops, Ahmad Wali, a senior police official, told Reuters by telephone.
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