KABUL: Five insurgents planning a suicide attack in Kabul were killed in a pre-dawn gunbattle in the capital, an Afghan security official said Thursday. Fighting raged for six hours after Afghan forces raided a house in the east of the city where the men were holed up, National Directorate of Security spokesman Lutfullah Mashal told.
"A group of insurgents armed with suicide vests, rockets and machine guns planned to seize a tall building in Kabul's (central) Shar-i-Naw area," Mashal said.
Acting on intelligence, security forces raided a house in the eastern Pul-e-Charkhi neighbourhood and a gunfight erupted after the gunmen refused to surrender, he said.
"The gunfight lasted for six hours and a total of five insurgents were killed. One of them detonated his suicide vest," Mashal said, adding that security forces had earlier believed there were seven members of the suicide squad.
Mashal said a mini-van full of explosives had also been found at the house and efforts were under way to defuse the bomb.
A spokesman for NATO's military in Afghanistan confirmed that "an incident of that nature" had taken place, without providing further details.
"A group of insurgents armed with suicide vests, rockets and machine guns planned to seize a tall building in Kabul's (central) Shar-i-Naw area," Mashal said.
Acting on intelligence, security forces raided a house in the eastern Pul-e-Charkhi neighbourhood and a gunfight erupted after the gunmen refused to surrender, he said.
"The gunfight lasted for six hours and a total of five insurgents were killed. One of them detonated his suicide vest," Mashal said, adding that security forces had earlier believed there were seven members of the suicide squad.
Mashal said a mini-van full of explosives had also been found at the house and efforts were under way to defuse the bomb.
A spokesman for NATO's military in Afghanistan confirmed that "an incident of that nature" had taken place, without providing further details.
(Curtsey by GEO NEWS)
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