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25-hour siege ends near India's Afghan consulate
[DAWN] A 25-hour gun and bomb siege near the Indian consulate in the Afghan city of Mazar-e-Sharif ended late Monday after all the attackers were killed, officials said."The clearance operation is over and all the gunnies have all been killed," said provincial police chief Sayed Kamal Sadat. Government front man Shir Jan Durrani said three armed assailants had been killed after they mounted an attack on the diplomatic mission from a nearby building late Sunday. "Our search operation is still going on inside the building," he said, adding that the fighting left one policeman dead and 11 others maimed. No group has so far grabbed credit for the attack in northern Afghanistan, the latest in a series of assaults on Indian installations in the country. The attack began late on Sunday after gunnies tried unsuccessfully to break into the consulate, taking advantage of the fact that many people were watching the final of a football championship between Afghanistan and India. After a heavy exchange of fire that went on until well into the night, security forces had suspended operations before resuming in the morning, firing rocket-propelled grenades and heavy machine guns at the building. Gunfire rang out as a helicopters circled overhead in a residential area of the city, in Balkh province, bordering Uzbekistan.
Posted by: Fred 2016-01-05 |
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