Car Bomb Targets US Consulate Vehicle in Pakistan

Pakistani officials and rescue workers gather at the site of a car bombing in Peshawar, Pakistan on Monday, Sept. 3, 2012.

ISLAMABAD — A suicide bomber rammed his vehicle into a U.S. government car in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar Monday, killing two people and injuring more than a dozen, including two Americans.

U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland Monday confirmed in a statement that Americans had been hit in the blast.

Referring to the statement, a spokeswoman for the U.S. embassy in Islamabad, Rian Harris, gave details of the early morning explosion.