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| Afghan suicide attack kills five police in Jalalabad | Afghan suicide attack kills five police in Jalalabad |
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| Five police officers have been killed in a suicide attack on a police station in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, officials have told the BBC. | Five police officers have been killed in a suicide attack on a police station in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, officials have told the BBC. |
| Four others were wounded in the attack which has been claimed by the Taliban. | |
| "Seven suicide attackers armed with weapons attacked the police HQ of Nangarhar," a spokesman told the BBC. | |
| One attacker detonated a vehicle "packed with explosives. Three suicide attackers were killed by police," he added. | |
| Three attackers were killed by police but another three managed to get inside the police HQ and detonate their suicide vests, the spokesman said. | |
| The attack was now over, police said. | |
| The Taliban said that the attack targeted "foreigners and Israeli teachers" training Afghan police at the base in Jalalabad, the capital of Nangarhar province, according to the AFP news agency. | |
| In December the Taliban attacked a joint US-Afghan airbase in Jalalabad, killing four Afghan soldiers and wounding Nato troops. |