Bagram blast: No Georgians injured or killed in Afganistan

No Georgian soldiers or military servants were injured or killed in last night's explosive attack on Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan.

Bagram Air Base, north of Kabul, houses the largest contingent of United States (US) soldiers in the country, and is also where Georgian soldiers are based and serve within a NATO-led peacekeeping mission.

Today the Ministry of Defence of Georgia announced the Georgian Armed Forces (GAF) at Bagram Air Base remained safe during the attack. 

A statement by NATO claimed at least four people had been killed in Saturday morning's attack and a further 14 were injured in an explosion inside the heavily fortified Bagram Air Base - the largest US military base in Afghanistan - with the Taliban claiming responsibility for it.

Bagram district governor Haji Shokoor told CNN that "the people killed in the blast were foreign citizens but we don't know their nationalities". 

Shokoor said all those who were injured in the blast were Afghan nationals.

The Taliban, an Islamic fundamentalist political movement in Afghanistan, claimed responsibility for the attack and said one of its suicide bombers had carried out the attack, which reportedly hit a dining area. Bagram Air Base was hit while people gathered to celebrate Veteran's Day.

US Army Commander in Afghanistan General John W Nicholson addressed the relatives of those who had died in the explosion and told them "we share your loss and our thoughts are with you”.

We offer you our deepest condolences. For the family and friends of those wounded in today's attack, let me assure you they are receiving the best care possible, and we will keep them in our thoughts today," said Nicholson.

NATO said response teams at Bagram Air Base are continuing to treat those wounded in the attack and investigate the incident.

BBC reported the attack on Bagram came one day after the German Consulate in Mazar-e-Sharif city in northern Afghanistan was hit by a Taliban suicide bomb blast that killed six civilians and wounded some 120 others.

The Taliban said on Friday the attacks were carried out in retaliation for a recent coalition airstrike in Kunduz which reportedly killed some 30 civilians.

Last December a Taliban suicide bomber riding a motorbike killed six US soldiers in a village near Bagram in one of last year's deadliest attacks on foreign troops.