Women and children were among the casualties and pools of blood and body parts were scattered around the burned-out wreckage of six vehicles at the scene of the attack, an AFP reporter said.
Witnesses said two of the vehicles belonged to NATO special forces, but a spokesman for the International Security Assistance Force said there were no ISAF casualties and he had no information that military vehicles were involved.
"Seven civilians, including two children, were killed in today`s suicide attack. Eight civilians including two children and one woman, have been injured in the blast," provincial spokesman, Zalmay Ayobi, told AFP.
Witnesses said the bomber tried to ram his Toyota sedan into ISAF cars as they were leaving the first entry point to the vast airport complex, which has both military and civilian sections.
The Taliban, the militia leading a 10-year insurgency against the Afghan government and tens of thousands of NATO troops, claimed responsibility.
Spokesman Qari Yousuf Ahmadi told AFP the target was "the bullet-proof vehicles of foreign forces". (*)
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