Bagram Air Base serves as the main US military base in Afghanistan. Reports in the immediate aftermath of the attack suggested that a US military convoy was the target, but the US military said the powerful explosion targeted a medical facility near the base.
A suicide bomber detonated explosives near the United States' Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan on Wednesday, the US military has said.
The bombing targeted a medical facility outside the base, located north of the capital Kabul in Parwan Province. Gen. Mahfooz Walizada, police commander of the province, confirmed the attack in a separate statement and said it had destroyed several homes.
Reports immediately after the explosion suggested that it targeted a US convoy, but the US military reported that the explosion targeted a gate of the Bagram base.
There were no coalition or US casualties, Resolute Support, the NATO-led non-combat mission in Afghanistan, has confirmed. The mission said, however, that the medical facility, which is being constructed for locals near the base, was badly damaged.
Reuters has quoted a spokeswoman for the Parwan governor as saying that five people, all of them Afghans, were wounded in the attack. She said the attackers tried to enter the base but were “contained and repelled”. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack so far.
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