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Militants attack Afghan cities | |
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Several people have been killed in a series of attacks by Taleban militants in eastern Afghanistan. | |
A group of gunmen and suicide bombers attacked three key sites, including the governor's compound, in the city of Gardez, killing at least four people. | |
In Jalalabad, near the border with Pakistan, two militants and one policeman were killed, officials said. | |
Taliban militants in Afghanistan have carried out a number of similar co-ordinated attacks in the past. | |
In Gardez, the militants attacked the police chief's office and a police station, as well as the governor's compound, a local official told the BBC. | |
A local trader said there was panic and confusion. | |
"I was at my shop and I suddenly heard a loud explosion and then gunshots. I saw fire being exchanged between the police and attackers," the trader told the BBC. | |
An Afghan doctor at the hospital in Gardez said he had received four bodies, all of military personnel. Other reports suggested several militants were also killed in the attacks. | |
Reports said that at least two of the attackers were wearing women's head-to-toe burkhas. | |
In Jalalabad, a spokesman for the governor said two militants were killed when they tried to gain access to the airport - a base for Afghan and foreign troops. | |
One Afghan policeman died in the shoot-out. | |
Earlier, a British soldier was killed in an explosion in Helmand province in the south of the country. | |
He was the 18th British soldier to be killed in Afghanistan this month. |