[Dawn] At least two coppers were killed and one maimed on Tuesday when a group of jacket wallahs stormed a government building in southeastern Afghanistan, the interior ministry said.The group of four suicide bombers attacked the directorate of communication building in Sharana, the capital city of Paktika
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province, a statement said.
In the course of the ongoing shootout "two coppers were killed and one maimed", while two attackers were also killed, said the statement.
"Afghan National Police are engaging in a shootout with remaining attackers", it said.
The attackers first killed a police guard at the gate before taking over the building, Paktika provincial front man Mokhlis Afghan said.
One attacker was killed in an exchange of fire with the police at the gate and second attacker went kaboom!" later in the building, killing another policeman, he added.
Governor of the province Muhibullah Samim told AFP that the attackers wanted to target an intelligence office close to the building they had taken over.
The police have surrounded the building and a third attacker has also been killed, he added.