Pakistani police: Suicide bomber knew which vehicle carried US soldiers before ramming car

Pakistani police: Bomber rammed US soldiers’ car

ISLAMABAD — Police say the suicide bomber who killed three U.S. soldiers in northwestern Pakistan knew which vehicle was theirs in a five-car convoy and rammed his car into it.

The description of Wednesday’s attack is raising questions of whether the attacker had inside information. Police official Naeem Khan said Thursday authorities were investigating how the bomber knew the soldiers would be passing through Lower Dir and which vehicle to attack.

The soldiers were part of a little-publicized mission to train local forces to fight the Taliban and al-Qaida in Pakistan’s volatile northwest near the Afghan border.

U.S. officials were skeptical Wednesday that Americans were targeted. But initial reports had blamed the deaths on a roadside bomb.