KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Poland says one of its soldiers was among three members of the NATO-led force who were killed today in a car bomb attack in Afghanistan.

Officials say a Taliban attacker set off a car bomb next to an international military convoy, killing the three soldiers and wounding nearly 20 troops and civilians.

It happened only a couple of hundred yards from the U.S. Embassy, on a main Kabul road that leads to the airport — and next to a base that houses many Americans.

A statement from the military coalition said five troops were wounded in addition to the three killed, but it didn’t disclose their nationalities.

The three military deaths — and a fourth death in the country’s east — brought the total number of international troops killed in Afghanistan this year to 59. At least 42 were American.

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154-c-20-(Jason Straziuso (straz-YOO’-soh), AP correspondent)-“was giving C.P.R.”-AP correspondent Jason Straziuso reports an attack near the U.S. Embassy in Kabul has claimed the lives of at least three troops from within the NATO-led military force in Afghanistan. ((watch for dating in lead; the cut should stand)) (16 Sep 2014)

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155-c-14-(Jason Straziuso (straz-YOO’-soh), AP correspondent)-“this main thoroughfare”-AP correspondent Jason Straziuso reports the Taliban has claimed responsibility for today’s deadly attack on an international military convoy. (16 Sep 2014)

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APPHOTO MAH117: A U.S. military force stands guard at the site of a suicide attack near a U.S. military camp in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2014. A Taliban suicide car bomber attacked a foreign motorcade just a couple hundred yards (meters) from the U.S. Embassy, unleashing a blast that injured at least a dozen people and rattled nearby neighborhoods, police officials said. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini) (16 Sep 2014)

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