Taliban bomb kills six foreign soldiers in Afghanistan

Dec 21, 2015- A suicide vehicle bomb attack on a patrol near a base at Bagram in eastern Afghanistan has killed six foreign soldiers and injured three, Nato says. Nato, which leads the international force in Afghanistan, did not give the nationalities of the victims. In a separate incident, the US embassy said a US citizen had been killed in the capital Kabul. And in Helmand province, Taliban militants have laid siege to the police headquarters. Brig Gen William Shoffner, head of public affairs at Nato's Resolute Support base in Kabul, said the attack near the Bagram base had happened at around 13:30 local time (09:00 GMT). The base is the biggest US military facility in Afghanistan. Earlier, a spokesman for the governor of Parwan province, where Bagram is located, told the BBC that the attacker had been riding a motorbike when he set off the bomb. According to the spokesman, three Afghan police officers were also wounded in the attack. The Taliban said it had carried out the attack in statements to media