Four civilians died in southeastern Afghanistan Thursday when an explosion hit their car as it traveled behind a convoy of Afghan army trucks, the U.S. military said. The blast occurred on Thursday morning near Orgun, a town in Paktika province where U.S. troops man a base overlooking the Pakistani border, American spokesman Maj. Mark McCann said. The civilian vehicle had apparently been following a column of trucks from Afghanistan's U.S.-trained Afghan National Army when a roadside bomb exploded. "It looks like it struck the vehicle and four local nationals were killed," McCann said.
