Suicide attack on military base in Afghanistan, 30 security personnel killed

30 security personnel were killed in a suicide bombing at a military base in Afghanistan.

According to the foreign news agency ‘AFP’, the attack took place in the suburbs of Ghazni city, the capital of the eastern province of Ghazni, which is the biggest attack in the last few months.

No organization or group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, but reports of clashes between the Taliban and Afghan forces in Ghazni city continue to circulate.

“30 dead bodies and 24 wounded have been brought to the hospital, all of them security personnel,” said Baz Muhammad Hammat, director of the hospital in Ghazni.

On the other hand, the spokesman of the Ministry of Interior, Tariq Arian, said that a suicide bomber detonated a vehicle full of explosives in the military base.

“The suicide bomber took the Humvee inside the base and detonated it,” said Waheedullah, a spokesman for Ghazni’s governor.

It should be noted that a few days ago, 14 people were killed as a result of two bomb blasts in the historic city of Ghazni.

Provincial Police Chief Hikmatullah said that another suicide bomb attack in the southern city of Qalat in Zabul province left a civilian dead and 20 others injured.

He said that in this attack, the vehicle of Atta Jan Haqbayan, the head of Zabul Provincial Council, was targeted and he was injured.

It should be noted that a historic agreement was signed at the end of February this year between the two warring parties, the United States and the Taliban, to end the war that began in Afghanistan after the attack on the World Trade Center in New York in 2001.

In this peace agreement in Doha, the capital of Qatar, the Taliban will guarantee that the territory of Afghanistan will not be used against any country, while the gradual withdrawal of American forces from Afghanistan has begun.

Later, in the opening ceremony of the inter-Afghan talks, the Afghan government and other allies, including the United States, called for a ceasefire, but the Taliban did not mention a temporary ceasefire before coming to the negotiating table.

It was initially expected that negotiations would begin within a few weeks of the February 29 agreement, but that timeline has been marred by delays since the beginning.