Two guards and five fighters have been killed in a suicide attack on the national headquarters of Afghanistan spy agency, officials said. “There were five attackers involved. The first detonated a car bomb at the gate, the other four were shot dead by police and NDS guards as they approached,” Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqqi said, adding that about 30 civilians were wounded in Wedneday’s attack. In a text message to AFP the Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, saying that “a large number of intelligence workers were killed and wounded”. A senior police officer said two guards from the National Directorate of Security intelligence agency were killed and others wounded. Gunshots continued to ring out throughout the heavily guarded neighbourhood about half an hour later as a plume of smoke rose into the sky.
