UP to 70 people were injured in a powerful suicide truck bomb that exploded near the entrance to a NATO base in Afghanistan Friday.

UP to 70 people were injured in a powerful suicide truck bomb that exploded near the entrance to a NATO base in Afghanistan Friday.
The Taliban claimed res

ponsibility for the attack in the Muhammad Agha district of Logar province, south of the capital Kabul, which took place at around 8:00am (0330 GMT).

The blast, which was considered a suicide attack, could be heard for several kilometers (miles), an Agence France Press reporter in the area said.

Logar's health director, Mohammad Zarif Nayebkhail, told AFP up to 70 people were taken to hospital with injuries from shrapnel or flying glass.
"Up to 70 wounded have been taken to the main hospital in the district -- seven of them are (Afghan) security guards of NATO, the rest are civilians," he said. "Several of the wounded were in a serious condition."

NATO's US-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said that one occupation soldier was wounded.

Logar's deputy police chief Mohammad Abed described the explosion as "huge", adding it had destroyed some homes nearby.
"The suicide attacker wanted to ram his explosive-laden vehicle into the coalition forces base but he was stopped at the gate and detonated the truck outside the base," he said.