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| Fighting rages as Taliban launch |
| Fighting rages as Taliban launch attacks on Kabul
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| INDIA
, 18-January-2010
3:22:55 AM |
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The Taliban launched a wave of gun and bomb attacks on Kabul on Monday, with at least two insurgents killed and 13 people injured as fierce fighting erupted in the heart of the Afghan capital.
A series of explosions rocked Kabul, with smoke billowing out of at least two shopping centres, and intense gun battles raged between militants and Afghan security forces as police and military snipers patrolled rooftops.
"It is our work, the targets are the (presidential) palace, the finance, justice and mines ministries, and the central bank," a Taliban spokesman claimed from an undisclosed location.
"Twenty of our suicide bombers have entered the area and fighting is ongoing," the spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said, adding that one militant had detonated a suicide vest at the entrance to the presidential palace complex.
Insurgents stormed a five-storey shopping mall and were exchanging gunfire with security forces surrounding the building, witnesses said, while local television showed a second shopping centre spewing smoke.
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