At least 17 civilians have been killed in suicide car bombing near a US base in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Khost.
The blast went off at a military roadblock near Camp Chapman’s entrance, Khost police chief Faizullah Ghairat told a foreign news agency.
Officials say foreign troops have sealed off access to the area where the explosion happened.
NATO said it was aware of an “explosion” in Khost.
Camp Chapman, which is near the border with Pakistan, was the scene of one of the most lethal ever blows against the CIA back in 2009.
An al Qaeda agent detonated a suicide vest at the base, killing seven CIA officers, an attack featured in the 2012 film Zero Dark Thirty.
Some US forces remain in the base, though American and NATO troops formally ended their combat mission in Afghanistan at the end of last year.
The international forces handed over responsibility for security to the country’s armed forces.
