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| Suicide bombers hit Afghan city | Suicide bombers hit Afghan city |
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| Suicide bombers have targeted government buildings in a suspected Taliban attack on the south-eastern Afghan city of Khost. | |
| Heavy gunfire and explosions were heard near the main police station, attorney general's office, courts and a local bank branch, Associated Press reported. | Heavy gunfire and explosions were heard near the main police station, attorney general's office, courts and a local bank branch, Associated Press reported. |
| The battle - said to be still going on - comes amid a spike of violence ahead of elections on 20 August. | |
| The Taliban have recently carried out several attacks on provincial cities. | The Taliban have recently carried out several attacks on provincial cities. |
| Co-ordinated attacks | |
| Defence Minister spokesman General Mohammed Zahir Azimi said the fighting was still going on. | |
| "A group of terrorists attacked government buildings and a commercial bank. Three of them carried out suicide explosions and a small group of them are resisting against security forces," he told AFP news agency. | |
| In May, six people were killed when militants launched simultaneous assaults on government buildings in Khost. | |
| Last week at least four security personnel were killed in attacks on Gardez, about 50 miles (80km) northwest of Khost, when militants attacked the police chief's office, a police station and the intelligence directorate, as well as the governor's compound. | |
| Another security personnel died in an attack in eastern city of Jalalabad. |