Three US troops were killed in the suicid­e bomb attack outsid­e Bagram Air Base north of KabulKABUL: A contractor that officials initially reported to have been killed in a Taliban attack on a convoy at a US air base in fact survived the incident, NATO said on Tuesday. Three US troops were killed in the suicide bomb attack outside Bagram Air Base north of Kabul on Monday. “The contractor who was reported as killed, is alive,” NATO’s Resolute Support mission said in a statement. Three US troops, contractor killed in Afghanistan blast: officialThe contractor, an Afghan citizen, was in stable condition and was treated at Bagram, officials said. The US now has some 14,000 troops in Afghanistan — down from a peak of around 100,000 — most of them deployed to train and advise Afghan counterparts.

Source: The Express Tribune April 09, 2019 15:31 UTC