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| The main US base in Afghanistan has been hit by at least one explosion, officials say. | |
| Reuters news agency quoted unnamed officials as saying that a car bomb exploded outside the Bagram base - followed by a suicide bombing. | |
| The man allegedly detonated himself outside the main base gate. There is no confirmation. There are reports of injuries but no deaths. | |
| Bagram air base is about 60km (40 miles) north of Kabul. | |
| Military officials also said that three Nato soldiers were killed on Tuesday after being wounded in a bomb blast in the south. | |
| The south of Afghanistan has become the centre of the Taleban insurgency after they were forced from power by US-led forces in 2001. | The south of Afghanistan has become the centre of the Taleban insurgency after they were forced from power by US-led forces in 2001. |
| Nato has not divulged the identities of the dead soldiers or the exact location of the attack, but a Canadian general has been reported by the AP news agency as saying that they were all Canadian. | |
| The latest deaths take the total of international soldiers killed in Afghanistan this year to 52, according to the icasualties.org website that tracks casualties in Afghanistan. |