By NBC News staff and wire services
Updated at 12:45 a.m. EST: Multiple suicide bombers attacked the military airfield in the eastern Afghanistan city of Jalalabad early Sunday, a NATO spokesman said.
None of the insurgents breached the perimeter, U.S. Army Maj. Martyn Crighton, a spokesman for NATO in Kabul, told NBC News, but one Afghan service member was killed and several others wounded. He said there were no reports of fatalities among members of the ISAF but some were wounded.
Local police officials told Reuters that a dozen bodies in Afghan police and military uniforms were scattered around an entrance.?It was not clear whether the dead were Afghan security forces or militants dressed in uniforms, a tactic the Taliban sometimes deploy during attacks.?
The BBC, citing unidentified Afghan intelligence officials,?said four insurgents in explosives-laden vehicles attacked various entrances to the base and at least three other insurgents then tried to enter on foot. The officials said all of the attackers were killed, the BBC reported.
There was no way to immediately clarify the difference in numbers of the dead.
The Taliban claimed responsibility in an email to reporters. It said a suicide attack occurred first and fighters then tried to enter the base. There was no way to independently verify the claims.
In February, a suicide car bomber killed nine people at the base at an airport, almost exclusively used by NATO and the U.S. military.
The United States and Afghan government are scrambling to improve security before most NATO combat troops withdraw at the end of 2014.
This article includes reporting from NBC News' Atia Abawi, The Associated Press and Reuters.
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