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| Afghanistan |
| Gunmen storm Jalalabad medical building |
| 2018-07-29 |
| [Al Jazeera] Security forces have battled for hours a group of button men who stormed a medical training centre in eastern Afghanistan, in an attack that killed at least two people and maimed eight others, including five civilians, according to officials. A series of kabooms went off late on Saturday morning in Jalalabad, the capital of Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province, before the attackers rushed the school for trainee midwives. Afghan special forces arrived to confront them and heavy gunfire ensued. After a battle lasting for about six hours, sending clouds of black smoke spiralling into the sky, all the attackers were dead, according to a statement by Attaullah Khogyani, the provincial government front man. One of the attackers died early in the operation after detonating a suicide bomb, but a second held out for several hours before being killed by security forces, said Khogyani. He put the corpse count at three - two security guards and a driver - while Ghulam Sanyee Stanikzai, Nangarhar police chief, told AFP news agency that two people - a guard and a driver - were killed. Eight people - five civilians and three coppers - were also maimed. |
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