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Suicide bombing hits military base in Kabul (1st Lead)
Nov 13, 2009, 5:20 GMT
Kabul - A suicide bomber blew himself up in front of a military base in the eastern part of the Afghan capital Kabul and injured six people, officials said Friday.
Interior Ministry spokesman Zamarai Bashary confirmed that the blast, which occurred on Jalalabad road, was a suicide attack.
Sayed Abdul Ghafar Sayedzada, the head of the police's criminal investigation department, said that the suicide attack injured three foreign soldiers and three Afghans and destroyed four vehicles.
The area has been sealed off by security forces. There has been no information on the exact target of the attack, which occurred near Camp Phoenix, a military base used by international troops in Afghanistan.
A spokesman for the International Security Assistance Force could only confirm that a suicide attack had taken place.
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