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Afghan city attacked by militants Militants attack Afghan cities
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Taliban militants have attacked government buildings in a city in eastern Afghanistan, reports say. Several people have been killed in a series of attacks by Taleban militants in eastern Afghanistan.
A US military official said militants with guns and other weapons targeted the governor's compound in Gardez. 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.
Reports said that some of the attackers were suicide bombers, at least two of them dressed in women's head-to-toe burkhas. In Jalalabad, near the border with Pakistan, two militants and one policeman were killed, officials said.
A separate attack took place in Jalalabad, near the border with Pakistan. Taliban militants in Afghanistan have carried out a number of similar co-ordinated attacks in the past.
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. 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.
Taliban militants have carried out a number of similar co-ordinated attacks in the past. 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.