Explosions and gunfire in Kabul near embassy district

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Explosions and gunfire in Kabul near embassy district
Blasts and gunfire echoed through the Afghan capital Kabul on Tuesday, as the Taliban said several attackers armed with rocket-propelled grenades and suicide vests were targeting government buildings near the embassy district. 

At least six loud explosions were interspersed with gunfire around the middle of the day. A rocket landed in Kabul's embassy district Reuter’s witnesses said. Residents and shop owners in the vicinity took cover.

“The suicide bombers are on the building and are firing, as you can hear the explosions. So I escaped from my cigarette shop because it was near the site," said Khawani, who owns a cigarette shop. Police and other security officials blocked roads around the U.S. embassy and other diplomatic missions, and said the attack had happened at a nearby square.

Several Taliban attackers armed with rocket-propelled grenades, AK-47s and suicide vests have taken up positions in Kabul, near the embassy district, to attack government buildings, a spokesman for the insurgents said. 

He said he could not comment on how many attackers there were while the operation was going on. The attack in Kabul follows a huge truck bomb at a NATO base in central Afghanistan in which four Afghan civilians were killed and 77 U.S. troops wounded, on the eve of the anniversary of the Sept 11 2001 attacks.  Violence in Afghanistan is at its worst since U.S.-backed Afghan forces toppled the Taliban government in late 2001, with high levels of foreign troop deaths and record civilian casualties.
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