Authorities in Afghanistan confirmed today (January 22, 2019) that a Taliban attack yesterday on a key military base near Kabul killed at least 36 people and wounded 58 others, according to the VOA News website.
The first official casualty toll was released more than 24 hours after the insurgent raid on a training facility in the city of Maidan Shahr, about 50 kilometers from the national capital of Kabul.
The victims were mostly members of Afghan commando forces deployed at the high-profile installation run by the Afghan intelligence agency, known as the National Directorate of Security (NDS).
Afghan officials said a suicide bomber drove an explosives-laden U.S.-made armored military vehicle -- known as a Humvee -- into the NDS center and detonated it.
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