Kabul standoff targetting the NATO HQ and US embassy, continues into night

Taliban gunmen armed with suicide vests and heavy weaponry have launched co-ordinated attacks in the Afghan capital Kabul, targeting NATO's headquarters, the US embassy, and the Afghan intelligence agency.

Heavy gunfire continued to be heard late into the night on Tuesday as Afghan forces battled to clear a building in the city's diplomatic quarter which had been taken over by heavily armed fighters. Rockets have reportedly been fired at the US and other embassies in the area.

Just a few kilometres away in the west of Kabul, a suicide bomber detonated himself near a police building, killing one policeman.

A second suicide bomber wounded two people when he detonated himself near Habibia high school also in the west of the city.

At least four policemen and two civilians have been killed and 18 others injured, according to police and hopsital sources.

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