A suicide bomber explodes his car outside an Afghan government department for martyrs and disabled persons as gunmen enter the building where they are battling local police, Kabul police chief spokesman Basir Mujahid says.
Four people have been reported injured in the attack that occurred as workers were preparing to leave for the day, says Mujahid, adding that police are still battling the gunmen. More casualties seem likely, he says.
Police have cordoned off the area in the east of the capital Kabul to gain control of the situation. Mujahid offers little information about the incident saying police are still at the scene.
Flames rise from a government building after an explosion and attack by gunmen, in Kabul, Afghanistan, December 24, 2018. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
Several apartment buildings as well as a government public works department building are located in the same area of the eastern Kabul neighborhood where the attack is underway. Eyewitnesses report that a portion of the government building is in flames and several smaller explosions are heard amid the ongoing gunbattle.
No one claims responsibility but both the Taliban and the local Islamic State affiliate have carried out brazen daytime attacks in the capital.
— AP
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