Several injured in Afghan attack on civilian compound: US
NATO coalition troops were helping carry out medical evacuations
An attack on a compound housing civilian contractors in Afghanistan on Monday wounded several people, but did not cause any military casualties, the Pentagon said Monday.
Pentagon spokesman Captain Jeff Davis said attackers had breached a wall at the compound, known as Camp Sullivan, located near the airport in Kabul.
An Afghan security official earlier told AFP that a powerful car bomb had struck near the compound. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.
Davis said NATO coalition troops were helping carry out medical evacuations.
"There are ongoing operations that we are supporting to medivac people who might need to be medivacked out of there," Davis said.
The US military in Afghanistan did not immediately respond to a request for additional information.
Earlier Monday, a suicide bomber struck a street leading to the city's international airport, near where the second blast took place, but no casualties were reported.
The bombings mark the latest assaults on the war-scarred Afghan capital.
A Taliban suicide car-bomber struck a French restaurant popular with foreigners in Kabul on Friday, killing two people in a New Year's Day attack.
Fifteen others were wounded in the attack on Le Jardin, an Afghan-owned eatery, which caused a piercingly loud explosion and left a building engulfed in flames.
The spike in violence coincides with a renewed international push to revive peace talks with the resurgent Taliban.
Islamabad is set to host a first round of dialogue between Afghanistan, Pakistan, the US and China on January 11 to lay out a comprehensive roadmap for peace.
Pakistan, which wields considerable influence over the Afghan Taliban, hosted a milestone first round of talks in July but the negotiations stalled when the insurgents belatedly confirmed the death of longtime leader Mullah Omar.
(AFP)
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