adminAfghan security officials have said that at least six people have been killed at a Nato compound in the Afghan capital Kabul, in an attack claimed by the Taliban. Kabul provincial police chief Mohammad Ayoub Salangi said the attackers detonated a car bomb at the compound gate yesterday morning before attacking guards with small-arms fire.
Salangi said two truck drivers working for the foreign logistics company and four Nepalese guards were killed in the attack. Three other employees were wounded, he said.
The attack began when one of the fighters drove an explosives-laden truck into a vehicle bay in the compound north of Kabul airport, detonating an explosion that left a crater six metres deep and about 15 metres wide.
The Taliban, in an emailed statement from Zabihullah Mujahid, the group’s spokesman, claimed responsibility for the attack and said its fighters had entered what it described as “an important foreign base and logistics warehouse”.
Violence is escalating across Afghanistan as Nato-led combat troops prepare to leave by the end of 2014. The attack happened after the interior ministry announced that armed attacks over the past one month left nearly 300 Afghan local and national policemen dead.
That figure suggests casualties among local forces are mounting now that Nato-led coalition troops have handed over responsibility for combat operations. — Al Jazeera
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