A Taliban attack on a military base and police training centre in eastern Afghanistan on Monday killed at least 12 people and wounded over 30 people, provincial officials have said.
Some of the wounded were taken to provincial hospitals for treatment while the more serious cases were sent to the capital, Kabul.
A suicide car bomber struck the base first, with militants opening fire at the Afghan forces, Nasrat Rahimi, deputy spokesman for the interior minister, said.
Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban spokesman, claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement to the media.
Salem Asgherkhail, head of the area’s public health department, said that most of those killed in the attack military personnel.
The Taliban have launched daily attacks on security forces in Afghanistan and are said to control almost half of Afghanistan.
It comes as the US attempts to negotiate an end to the country’s 17-year war.
President Donald Trump wants a major scale-back of Washington’s involvement in Afghanistan, where 14,000 US troops operate as part of a NATO peacekeeping operation.