AFGHAN BOILER: 10 die in twin blasts at British compound in Kabul!

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AP / The Hindu / KABUL, August 19, 2011.

Afghan security forces carry a wounded British man at the site of a suicide attack outside the British Council in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Friday - AP.

A group of suicide attackers stormed a British compound in the Afghan capital on Friday on the anniversary of the country’s independence from Britain, triggering a five-hour firefight that killed at least 10 people.

A spokesman for the Taliban, Zabiullah Mujahid, claimed responsibility for the attack on the British Council in the western part of Kabul.

The dead included eight Afghan policemen, a security guard whose nationality was not immediately known and an Afghan municipal worker, according to Kabul police official Farooq Asas. Two of four people wounded in the blasts were not Afghans, he said.

Britain’s Foreign Office said all insurgents involved in the attack were killed.

The attack started with one suicide bomber detonating an explosives-laden car outside the British Council while another suicide bomber struck inside the compound, according to Afghan police.

Afghan security forces dispatched to the scene said that at least three insurgents fought from a secure bunker inside the compound with rifles and rocket propelled grenades.

Azizullah, a policeman, said that the insurgents wrestled weapons and ammunition from the guards at the compound. Afghan men often use one name.

In London, the British Foreign Office confirmed that all British nationals were safe following the attack.

“My thoughts are with those killed and injured and their families and friends, including locals working to protect the British Council building,” Foreign Office Minister Alistair Burt said. “It is a sad fact that once again an attack aimed at the international community has killed Afghans.”

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Afghan Boiler: Officials say 9 killed in Kabul attack!

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The scene at a police station in Kabul following a suicide bomb attack on Saturday. Men dressed in Afghan Army uniforms stormed the police station near the Presidential palace and opened fire said an eyewitness - AP.

The Afghan Interior Ministry says nine people have been killed in an attack on a police station in the country’s capital. Previously, officials had reported two police officers and one civilian killed.

The Ministry says in a statement that three police officers, an intelligence agent and five civilians were killed in Saturday’s assault. Gunmen stormed the police station near the presidential office, prompting a gunfight that lasted for more than an hour.

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