A coordinated Taliban attack on the Afghan parliament has ended with all six gunmen killed, according to the interior ministry.Attackers detonated a massive car bomb outside the gates, stormed the compound, then entered a building next to the chamber. Security forces evacuated the premises, while trying to fight the gunmen off.
The Taliban say they carried out the attack to coincide with a vote to endorse a new defense minister.
Interior ministry spokesman Sediq Seddiqi said the gunmen had tried to storm the parliament building itself after the gates were breached by the suicide bomb. They were fought off and entered a building under construction next to parliament. MPs were hit with broken glass, and the chamber filled with smoke as the fighting continued. It was nearly an hour before all the firing stopped.
At least 18 people are reported to have been injured. Mr Seddiqi said no MP had been wounded