Al-Jazeera correspondent, quoting an Afghan intelligence source said that 45 people were killed in the Taliban attack on the headquarters of the Afghan intelligence in the state of Wardak, south of the capital Kabul, and claimed responsibility for the Taliban.
There were conflicting reports of the death toll, with the Afghan Defense Ministry denied media reports that the death toll exceeded 100 soldiers, after Western news agencies and Western media quoted an official of the same ministry confirmed that the death toll exceeded 100.
A senior ministry official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters: "We have information that 126 people were killed in the blast inside the military training center.
A provincial official also said the death toll was more than 100, while a government spokesman declined to comment.
"Most of the dead are security and intelligence personnel," said Al-Jazeera correspondent Hamidullah Mohammed Shah. "This headquarters is very important and its members carry out night raids against Taliban militants and are conducting military operations against them in four states.
The correspondent pointed out that this headquarters represents the southern gate that guards the capital Kabul, and quoted the Taliban said in a statement on the tongue of the spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid, that a suicide bomber managed at 7.30 am this morning to detonate a car bomb, and then three gunmen stormed Al Qaeda, and the clashes lasted two and a half hours.
In another story, a spokesman for the state of Wardak Abdul Rahman Manjal - told reporters - that four Taliban militants launched an attack on the camp, where one of them detonated his explosive belt at the entrance to the camp.
He explained that the rest of the attackers began to fire automatic weapons on security forces after the suicide bombing.
Earlier, provincial council member Mohammad Sardar Bakhtiari said al Qaeda had a special unit of the intelligence agency, composed of about 150 men.
The field of Wardak Square strategically located on the road linking Kabul to the south, and is a launching pad for suicide bombings, and the Taliban control the mountain villages near the province.