Three US military and contractor killed in Afghanistan bombing

Three US soldiers and a contractor were killed on Monday in a car bomb attack near the Afghan Air Base in Bagram, reported NATO, about an action claimed by the Taliban.

"Three American soldiers and a contractor are dead, and three US soldiers were wounded by an explosive device on April 8 near Bagram Air Base", announced the military mission of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in a statement.

The attack claimed by the Taliban brings to seven the number of American soldiers killed since the beginning of the year in this country.

For the moment, the nationality of the employee of the deceased private company has not been revealed.

According to Salim Noori, a spokesman for the police in Parwan province, where Bagram is located, about 50 kilometers north of Kabul, the explosion occurred at 17:40 local time (13:10 GMT) .

The car bomb "indicated a convoy of soldiers of the coalition"He said at AFP.

The district governor of Bagram, Abdul Shakoor Quddusi, told the AFP What The car bomb attack said "an armored vehicle carrying members of the foreign forces" near an entrance to the base and that the area was "cordoned off".

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack on the Twitter account of their spokesman Zabihulá Mujahid and announced that an "American convoy was attacked by a car bomb at Gate No. 3 at Bagram Air Base" , the largest US military base in Afghanistan. .

"An armored vehicle was completely destroyed, several invaders were killed or wounded," they added.

The president's tweet was accompanied by a photo where only a column of smoke was visible.

In accordance with the policy of the United States Department of Defense, the names of soldiers killed in action are kept until 24 hours after the next of kin have been informed.

(With information from AFP)