KABUL, Jan 17: A suicide car bomb killed a US soldier and four civilians and wounded 19 other people in an attack outside a US military base and the German embassy here on Saturday, officials and witnesses said.

In another incident, one US soldier was killed when a Chinook helicopter made a crash landing in eastern Afghanistan, the US military said.

A sewage tanker and several cars were burning at the scene of the suicide attack and there were blood stains on the road as police loaded victims onto the back of trucks and ambulances ferried wounded to hospitals, a Reuters witness said.

One US soldier died, while six other servicemen and a civilian were wounded, a military statement said.

Four Afghan civilians were killed and 19 were wounded, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.

Meanwhile, one US soldier was killed when a Chinook helicopter made a crash landing in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, the US military said in statement, adding that small arms fire was involved.—Reuters