KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban launched a rare attack on targets in the western Afghan city of Herat on Monday, including a NATO base, killing at least four people and wounding at least 38.
Operating far from the insurgents’ usual areas and in a city considered among the safest in Afghanistan, the attackers set off a suicide car bomb in front of the Provincial Reconstruction Team headquarters, which is under Italian command, and nearly simultaneously detonated a second bomb elsewhere in the city, according to Col. Noor Khan Nekzad, spokesman for the Herat chief of police.
Taliban insurgents, including at least two suicide bombers, attacked an Italian base in Herat on May 30th.
One witness reported seeing the bodies of several troops wearing foreign uniforms and saw smoke rising near an Italian-run, joint civilian and military provincial reconstruction team (PRT) base in Herat. Nato and Afghan officials were unable to confirm any casualties among Afghans or foreign More.. troops.
A second witness told Reuters it appeared an unknown number of insurgents had entered a seven-storey building near the PRT and opened fire on the base from there.
Interior ministry spokesman Zemari Bashary said at least two suicide bombers had launched the attack outside the PRT in Herat, a normally peaceful city close to the border with Iran. He said no details about casualties were immediately available.
Short clip showing aftermath of the suicide bombing on Italian outpost in Herat: May 30th
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