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TALIBAN fighters stormed a bank in Helmand provincial capital Lashgar Gah today, killing at least 10 people including three policemen.
Five suicide bombers raided the city branch of the New Kabul Bank, one of whom blew himself up at the entrance to allow the other four in, said provincial governor’s spokesman Omer Zawaj.
Once inside, the attackers fired at security forces who arrived and surrounded the building.
Helmand police spokesman Fareed Obaid said that as well those killed, “there are also 15 people wounded, including six members of the Afghan security forces.”
The other insurgents were killed in the gun battle, he said.
While claiming responsibility for the attack in Lashgar Gah, the Afghan Taliban condemned its Pakistani counterpart’s mass slaughter at a school in Peshawar on Tuesday, saying that killing innocents was un-Islamic.
Nangahar provincial police spokesman Hazrat Hussain Mashraqiwal said yesterday that 11 insurgents had been killed in a drone strike on Tuesday.
