KABUL, Jan 17, SPA - A suicide car bomb killed twoAfghan civilians and wounded 23 more in an attack outside aU.S. military base and the German embassy in the Afghan capitalon Saturday, REUTERS quoted officials and witnesses as saying. A sewage tanker and several cars were burning at the sceneand there were blood stains on the road as police loaded bodiesand wounded onto the back of pick-up trucks and ambulancesferried wounded to nearby hospitals, a Reuters witness said. Two Afghan civilians were killed and 23 were wounded, anofficial at the Presidential Palace said. Fourteen of the wounded were taken to the nearby EmergencyHospital and one died on the way, hospital officials said. A middle-aged woman outside the hospital was beating herhead and screaming that her son had died. She was almost hit bya car as she ran out into the road. Another man was crying andsaid his son had also been killed. Six U.S. troops were also wounded by the blast, a spokesmanfor U.S. forces in Afghanistan said. The bomber struck on a road lined with high concrete blastbarriers that runs between the German embassy and Camp Eggers,the headquarters of a U.S. unit that trains the Afghan army andpolice. The presidential palace and United Nations headquartersin Afghanistan lie immediately behind Camp Eggers. --SPA www.spa.gov.sa/626816