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The United States has announced multiple troops are believed to have died in the Kabul airport blast.
Reports say at least four US soldiers have been killed in the attack thought to have killed 40 people so far.
The US said a number of its personnel are believed to be among the dead, at this early stage.
The devastating blast ripped through the area where desperate Afghans hoping to be evacuated had gathered.
The suspected suicide bombing targeted the canal ditch areas outside Hamid Karzai International Airport where people had gathered to wait in hopes of being flown out of Afghanistan.
There have been no reports of UK troops injured at this stage.
The Pentagon had earlier confirmed two blasts occurred in a “complex attack” outside Hamid Karzai International Airport, and there were “a number of US and civilian casualties”.
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The Ministry of Defence (MoD) said there had been no UK military or Government casualties reported at this early stage.
The MoD did not confirm or deny whether the so-called Islamic State (IS) splinter cell, Isis-K, was believed to be behind the explosions, after earlier warnings about the terror group in Afghanistan.
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