What the records say
- When
- 12 Nov 2016
- Kind
- Terrorist attack
- Coordinates
- 34.95° N, 69.27° E
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, 2016 Bagram Airfield bombing.
Summary
A suicide bomber killed two (a third died from wounds on December 3) US Soldiers from HHC, 1st Special Troops Battalion, 1st Sustainment Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division at the Bagram airbase, two American contractors were also killed in the blast and 16 other U.S. service members and a Polish service member were wounded. The bomber was a former Taliban militant.
2016 Bagram Airfield bombing
Suicide bombing in Bagram, Afghanistan
The 2016 Bagram bombing took place on November 12, 2016, when a suicide bomber managed to penetrate the security layer of Bagram Airfield, which was at the time the largest U.S. military base in Afghanistan located about 45 km north of Kabul, detonating his vest near a group of soldiers who were en route to Modern Army Combatives Training. Four U.S.
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