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, Eurasia Diary reports citing Sputnik News.
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.