Major Attack Launched Against NDS Office in Kabul

Six men launched an attack on the National Directorate of Security (NDS) facility in Kabul's Sedarat area at midday, detonating a car bomb at the gate before attempting to storm the facility.

All six men have been killed - one was driving the car when it exploded at the NDS main entrance and five more were shot in a subsequent gunfight with security guards, according to Ministry of Interior spokesman Sediq Sediqi and Kabul police chief Gen. Ayub Salangi.

A second car rigged with explosives has been found in the same street and the bomb has been disabled, Sediqi told TOLOnews.

As many as 20 other people have been either killed or injured but exact numbers have not been confirmed, according to the chief of Kabul police criminial investigation unit Gen. Zahir Zahir.

The wounded have been taken to the nearby NDS hospital and emergency wards of other local hospitals, officials said.

The bomb blast blew out windows of printing shop fronts on the opposite side of the road and cars in the street were damaged, witnesses said.

The targeted NDS facility includes the site of the only NDS prison in Kabul.

NDS head Asadullah Khalid survived an assassination attempt last month carried out by a suicide bomber who entered the NDS facility in Kabul's Taimani area in a planned meeting with the intelligence chief.

from TOLONEWS
Wednesday, 16 January 2013 13:06
Last Updated on Wednesday, 16 January 2013 14:04

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