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Afghan attackers target civilian compound: US

By Photo: Al Jazeera. An attack on a compound housing civilian contractors in Afghanistan on Monday wounded several people, but did not cause any military casualties, the Pentagon said Monday. Pentagon spokesman Captain Jeff Davis said attackers had breached a wall at the compound, known as Camp Sulli

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Published 4 January 2016, 8:00 · Updated 21:44

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Afghan attackers target civilian compound: US

An attack on a compound housing civilian contractors in Afghanistan on Monday wounded several people, but did not cause any military casualties, the Pentagon said Monday.

Pentagon spokesman Captain Jeff Davis said attackers had breached a wall at the compound, known as Camp Sullivan, located near the airport in Kabul.

An Afghan security official earlier told AFP that a powerful car bomb had struck near the compound. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.

Davis said NATO coalition troops were helping carry out medical evacuations.

"There are ongoing operations that we are supporting to medivac people who might need to be medivacked out of there," Davis said.

The US military in Afghanistan did not immediately respond to a request for additional information.

Also Monday, a suicide bomber struck a street leading to the city's international airport, near where the second blast took place, but no casualties were reported.

The bombings mark the latest assaults on the war-scarred Afghan capital.

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