KABUL – An hours-long gun and suicide attack on a Kabul government compound killed at least 43 people, the health ministry said Tuesday, making it one of the deadliest assaults on the Afghan capital this year.
Another 10 were wounded in Monday’s raid on a site where the Ministry of Public Works and other offices are located, spokesman Waheed Majroh said.
A car bomb exploded not far from Afghanistan’s Ministry of Public Works in Kabul was followed by gunfire, the Interior Ministry of Afghanistan said on Monday.
A number of gunmen entered the compound where an office of the Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs, Martyrs and Disabled is located, according to officials and media reports.
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Meanwhile, TOLO News reported citing Kabul police spokesman Basir Mujahid that the security forces have arrived at the government institution in Macroryan 1, PD 16 of the city, and the shooting is still underway.
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The incident comes amid stepped up diplomatic efforts for peace talks.
It comes on the day Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi visited Kabul and pledged efforts to bring the Taliban to negotiating table with Afghan government.
