HEART: A suicide car bomb exploded outside a base of the NATO-led military force in Afghanistan’s western city of Herat Saturday, wounding several troops, the alliance said.
The car bomb exploded at the gates of a base which is run by Italian troops in the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) with some Spanish soldiers also stationed there.
“We did have casualties just wounded,” an ISAF media official at the force’s headquarters in Kabul told foreign news agency. There were several wounded, she said, without being able to give more details. ISAF does not release the nationalities of its casualties.
According to foreign news agency, the bomb appeared to have struck a military vehicle which had overturned. The area was sealed off and Afghan officials could not immediately say if any civilians had been struck by the explosion.NEWS BY APAKISTANNEWS.COM
