United States military and the Afghan police officials announced that an American military convoy was attacked in a crowded market on Thursday. The attack came a day after the suicide bombing in Afghanistan and killed one soldier and 18 civilians. A Toyota Corolla approached the military convoy and blew off at around 8 a.m., Among the murdered civilians there was also a 12-year-old boy.

Dr. Ajmal Pardes, the director of public health in the area, stated that 74 other people were injured by the car bomber. The first explosion took place in the Bati Kot district in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar Province and the second one took place into a weekly market, destroying an American military vehicle, two civilian vehicles and two rickshaws.

The civilian death toll was initially put to 10, but as Jeff Bender, U.S. Navy commander and American military spokesman in Kabul said, it later raised to 18 civilians. Seven other civilians were killed and 40 injured after a tanker truck detonated outside the provincial council office in Kandahar on Wednesday.

The explosion was so strong that it destroyed five houses and caused a crater near the building that hosts the council. Gen. Rahmatullah Roufi, the provincial governor, told the Associated Press that “the enemies of Afghanistan and peace once again put us in mourning.” He added that immediate operations will be made to arrest insurgents.

The American military force is the most important foreign force in Afghanistan. Still, Britain has at least 8,000 troops there too. A survey made on Thursday by BBC showed that many civilians believe that Britain should take its soldiers back. This year, more than 5,400 people, among whom 1,000 were civilians, died in the area because of the bloody attacks.