A suicide car bomb exploded near a U.S. military base in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing seven Afghans and wounding 20, the US military said, BBC reported.
The insurgent Taliban movement claimed responsibility for the attack near Camp Salerno in the eastern town of Khost, which was hit by several suicide blasts on Tuesday that left up to nine Afghans dead, the AVA-Press reported.
The provincial police chief Abdul Qayoum Baqizoi said: "It was a car bomb but we have no information about the casualties at this point."