KABUL, June 22: A bomb went off outside a US military base in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz, an Afghan military official said on Sunday, in the first known attack on US forces in the north of the country.
No one was wounded in the Saturday night blast outside the US base in Kunduz or in another bomb blast at almost the same time outside the office of the provincial governor.
“The targets were obviously the governor’s office and the American base,” a military official, Homayoun, told Reuters by telephone from Kunduz.
“Thank God there was no injury. The only damage was to part of the wall of the governor’s office and the shattering of some nearby windows,” he
said.
The most deadly attack on foreign troops in Afghanistan was on June 7 when four German peacekeepers were killed and 31 wounded by a suicide car bomb in Kabul.—Reuters
