An Afghan interpreter was killed and eight other people wounded in a Taliban attack on a US-run base in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, NATO said Friday.
Four attackers were killed in the assault on the civilian-military base housing the local provincial reconstruction team in what was the Taliban capital before the 2001 US-led invasion ousted the militia from power.
Armed with guns, explosives and rocket-propelled grenades, the attackers opened fire from an empty building near the compound.
“One American civilian contractor and two Afghan security guards were injured, one Afghan interpreter was killed, and five ISAF service members were slightly wounded as a result of the attack,” the military said.
In keeping with policy, it did not announce the nationalities of the wounded troops from NATO’s International Security Assistance Force, but the base is run by the American military.
“There was no attempt to breach Camp Nathan Smith,” it added.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, which took around four hours for troops to repel, saying the gunmen were armed with suicide vests.
