http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/09/11/world/main310701.shtmlExplosions in southern and eastern Afghanistan killed three civilians and slightly wounded three U.S. soldiers, military and government officials said Monday.
The soldiers were injured on Saturday evening when their Humvee hit a landmine or a bomb on a road near Ghazni city, some 80 miles south of the capital Kabul, military spokesman Lt. Col. Bryan Hilferty said.
Other members of the patrol detained three men near the scene, "including one who was hiding in an outhouse and one who was cowering under a burka," Hilferty said of the all-encompassing robe that many Afghan women wear in public.
Hilferty provided no further details about the suspects. He said the three wounded soldiers were from the 10th Mountain Division. Their names were withheld.
Meanwhile, there were conflicting reports about three civilian deaths in a remote village in southern Uruzgan province.
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