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Blasts heard outside U.S. base in Afghanistan


    BAGRAM, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Two explosions, including a suspected suicide bombing, hit outside the main U.S. base in Afghanistan Wednesday but it was not immediately clear if there were any casualties, a U.S. military official said.

    An apparent blast from a car was followed seconds later by a suicide bomber on foot who detonated himself outside the main gate of Bagram air base, about 60 km (40 miles) north of Kabul, the military official said.

    A Reuters witness at the base saw several military vehicles leave the sprawling compound quickly.

    A Taliban suicide bomber blew himself up outside the gates to Bagram while then U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney was visiting the base in February 2006, killing more than a dozen people.

    (Writing by Sayed Salahuddin; Editing by Paul Tait)