Kabul: Gunmen on Tuesday attacked at Afghan Presidential Palace in Kabul. Three to four militants had died in this attack. This attacked was made just a day after the objection of President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai about US-backed peace talks with Taliban. Their were seven or eight explosion nearby palace which starts from 6:30 am.
This attack comes just a week after another suicide bomb in car in Kabul which had targeted a foreign military convoy. 15 peoples were killed in this attack including five Americans.
According to a palace source, the expansive ground around the building had not been breached. President Hamid Karzai, who lives in the palace, was due to hold a press event this morning and journalists had been asked to report to the building.
Kabul Police Chief Mohammad Ayoub Salangi had confirmed the death of militants and no security forces personnel or civilian were killed. The gunmen attacked on palace with explosive and gunfire.
All roads to the palace are permanently closed off, with several rings of heavy security around the complex keeping people far away.
The Taliban say they have hit one of the most secure areas of the Afghan capital with a suicide attack, as a series of explosion rocked the gate leading into the presidential palace. Smoke rose from the eastern gate of the palace early Tuesday after more than a half dozen explosions and at least 45 minutes of on-and-off small arms fire.
The Taliban sent a quick text-message statement saying “we brought death to the enemy.”
The gunmen reportedly clashed with Karzai’s bodyguards at the palace’s eastern gate and with security personnel at the Defence Ministry and a CIA station.
The palace is in a large fortified area of downtown Kabul that also includes the US embassy and the headquarters for the NATO-led coalition forces.
Bureau Report
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