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    By Agence France-Presse in Kabul, Afghanistan | China Daily | Updated: 2013-05-25 08:00

    Explosions and gunfire rocked central Kabul on Friday as the Taliban launched an attack close to an Afghan intelligence facility and the headquarters of a government force that protects foreign firms.

    The attack came a week after a suicide car bomb targeting a foreign military convoy killed 15 people including five US citizens in the deadliest attack in the Afghan capital for nearly a year.

    The Taliban announced their annual "spring offensive" on April 27, opening a crucial period as local security forces take the lead in the fight against the insurgents.

    At least two blasts hit the center of Kabul at about 4:00 pm (local time) on Friday, the second day of the Afghan weekend, and gunfire erupted as security forces rushed to the scene.

    Kabul police spokesman Hashmat Stanikzai said the initial blast came close to a hospital run by the NDS intelligence agency and the headquarters of the Afghan Public Protection Force, a government force that provides security for clients including international firms, supply convoys and aid groups.

    He said gunmen had occupied a building in the attack.

    Jawed Kazem, a local shopkeeper, said: "I was sitting in my shop when the explosion happened. It was a big explosion which threw me off my chair, minutes later another explosion happened.

    "Smoke is rising and gunfire is continuing."

    Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said that his group was responsible and added that the attack began with a suicide car bombing.

    "A group of other mujahideen armed with heavy and light weapons then took position in a building and are firing on several targets including a building in which the foreigners and members of spy agency stay," the spokesman said.

    The suicide bombing on May 16 was the first major attack in Kabul since March 9 when a bomber on a bicycle killed nine people outside the defense ministry during a visit by US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel.

    The attacks further underline the capital's vulnerability to militant assaults as 100,000 NATO troops gradually withdraw from Afghanistan ahead of the end of international combat operations next year.

    (China Daily 05/25/2013 page7)

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