By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 3:20 PM on 30th October 2011 Two British contractors were among 13 people killed when a suicide bomber rammed a military convoy in Afghanistan, the Foreign Office said. Five coalition troops and eight civilian contractors were killed in the Kabul attack yesterday, Nato said. The Taliban suicide bomber hit an armoured Nato vehicle as the convoy was passing the American University in the city. Wreckage: A tank which was destroyed in the deadly car bombing A Foreign Office spokesman said: 'Two British nationals were among those killed in yesterday's attack in Kabul.
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Four U.S. troops and one Canadian soldier killed together with eight American contractors
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Attack is worst loss of American lives in Afghanistan since helicopter crash which killed 30 U.S. soldiers
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Three Afghan civilians and one policeman also killed
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Taliban claims responsibility in text message to media outlets
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Followed attack in which female suicide bomber blew herself up in strike on government office in Afghanistan
is the deadliest attack on the @placeholder-led coalition in Kabul since the