Defence ministry officials said the Taliban had used US-made armoured Humvee vehicles captured from Afghan forces as a car bomb in order to breach the military fortifications. A second source residing in Maidan Wardak province said more than 100 members of National Directorate of Security (NDS) were killed in the complex attack. Sharif Hotak, a member of the provincial council in Maidan Wardak said he saw bodies of 35 Afghan forces in the hospital. Government officials in Maidan Wardak and Kabul declined to comment when asked if they were obscuring the death toll. A senior NDS official in Kabul said at least 50 people were killed or wounded in the complex attack.

Source: Dhaka Tribune January 21, 2019 14:15 UTC