Two killed in Kabul suicide bombing

Two people were killed and three were injured Sunday when a suicide bomber detonated explosives near a German embassy car in Kabul, officials said.

A local police spokesman told CNN that a bicyclist carrying a bomb exploded the device on a Kabul street as an official car from Germany's Afghanistan embassy was nearby. The car was slightly damaged and it wasn't known if the ambassador was inside, the broadcaster said.

Meanwhile, U.S. and Afghan officials said Sunday 17 armed militants were killed and another 10 arrested south of Kabul while 16 others were slain in a second incident in the Sorobi district, east of the capital, CNN reported.

The first operation in the Zadran district targeted a militant associated with the radical Haqqani network who allegedly assisted foreign fighters, the joint statement said from U.S. and Afghan military officials said.