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Fighting was reported in western Kabul after a series of coordinated attacks struck the headquarters of the city's traffic police. Police said that several suicide bombers were shot dead as they tried to enter the building. A car bomb detonated nearby an hour later. (Sabawoon, RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan)
Insurgents have launched a coordinated attack on the headquarters of the Kabul traffic police in the west of the capital. Fighting is reported continuing around the building after it was first struck early on January 21 by suicide bombers, followed an hour later by a car bomb. Here are images from the attack and the security response.
A shoot-out with insurgents at Kabul's traffic-police headquarters has come to an end after Afghan security forces killed the five militants barricaded inside the building. Three traffic-police officers were killed and 18 people were wounded.
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