This is not good.
It’s being reported that a suicide bomber using a vehicle bomb just killed 3 US service members and a US contractor near Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. Three others were wounded.
Here’s what we know as of now via NBC News:
BREAKING: 3 US service members and 1 contractor killed, 3 others wounded in an attack outside Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan today.
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) April 8, 2019
US military official describes the attack as using a catastrophic vehicle-borne IED - @ckubeNBC / @MoshehNBC pic.twitter.com/YxSk2xEUwH
BREAKING: 3 US service members and 1 contractor killed, 3 others wounded in an attack outside Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan today. pic.twitter.com/ieTWb4G1hq
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) April 8, 2019
I have found reports from this morning after it first happened:
BREAKING -- Local reports indicate a suicide car bomb on NATO troops in the vicinity of Bagram Air Force Base. (AP Cameraman Facebook post.)
— Mustafa מוסטפא (@CombatJourno) April 8, 2019
#AFG A suicide attacker detonated his 4by4 packed with explosives and targeted an American military convoy on the Bareekaaab bridge, BAGRAM in Parwan province. 1 US military vehicle burning right now and another damaged, multiple sources in BAGRAM and Parwan province tells me.
— BILAL SARWARY (@bsarwary) April 8, 2019
Two Afghan officials tell AFP a suicide bomber has hit a convoy carrying foreign forces outside Bagram. No confirmation from RS. Taliban claimed responsibility
— Thomas Watkins (@thomaswatkins) April 8, 2019
A statement was also released confirming this, noting that the wounded are receiving medical care: