10 killed in roadside bombing in Afghanistan

The bomber detonated the explosives at a military roadblock near the entrance to Camp Chapman, said Faizullah Ghairat, the Khost city police chief.

The explosion occurred at around 07:15 a.m. (local time) when the convoy was passing a main road in Spinzar locality, a witness said, adding that “one military vehicle was destroyed while several civilian cars and building were damaged by the blast”.

The attack took place in Tagab district, where insurgents are active and regularly attack Afghan security forces, said Fayeq.

The base, located on the outskirts of Khost city, is said to be in use of Afghan and foreign forces in Afghanistan. Pentagon officials referred comment to North Atlantic Treaty Organisation authorities in Afghanistan.

Camp Chapman, named after the first US soldier killed in combat in the war in Afghanistan, sits near Forward Operating Base Salerno, a large Soviet-built airfield that was targeted by a Taliban truck bombing in June 2012. The Pakistani Taliban and al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for that attack.

Camp Chapman came under attack in 2009 in a suicide operation that resulted in the deaths of seven employees of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, including five officers and two contractors.