translated from Spanish: At least 4 killed and 41 wounded in Afghanistan truck bombing

Kabul, Afghanistan.- At least four people were killed and 41 others injured, mostly civilians, after a suicidal Taliban fighter immolated with a truck loaded with explosives near a military base in northern Afghanistan.The bomb-laden truck attack took place at around 8.45 local time (4.15 GMT), in Balkh district, in the province of Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defense said in a statement.
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In addition to the suicide bomber, two civilians and one member of the Afghan security forces were killed, and 41 others (35 civilians and six members of the security forces) were injured, the statement detailed. The attacker detonated the explosives “near a veterinary clinic and a military base”, in an area where civilian homes are also located, the Vice-Minister of the Ministry of Defense, Fawad Aman, told the spokesman, the number of civilian casualties could increase in the coming hours, as “tens of houses” near the site of the explosion were damaged or destroyed.

Damage to some homes after the bomb truck attack in Afghanistan/@FawadAman2

The main Taliban spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, claimed the authorship of the attack, and assured in a statement that the target was the military base, where “dozens of soldiers died.” The Balkh district, with a large Taliban presence, is one of the most unsafe in the province. The bombing comes at a time of some reduction in violence in which Afghan security forces remain in a defensive position following the three-day ceasefire declared on 31 July.
This period of less violence is part of the efforts of both the government and the insurgents to pave the way for intra-Afghan peace negotiations that end nearly two decades of war in Afghanistan.The process should have begun more than five months ago, according to the agreement signed between the United States and the Taliban in Doha on February 29, but has been delayed by a controversial prisoner exchange. Under the agreement signed by the United States and the Taliban in Doha, the government was to release 5,000 insurgent prisoners while the Taliban have already done the same with the thousands of afghan security forces members who pledged to release prison, although Kabul criticized that some of them were civilians. The Government released 80 of the last 400 Taliban inmates in early August, and although they refuse to sit down at the negotiating table until the process is completed, it is unclear when the rest will be released.
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