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AFPKABUL —
Taliban militants armed with guns and rockets attacked a provincial government and police headquarters near the Afghan capital Kabul on Monday, 10 days before nationwide elections, an official said.One Afghan policeman was killed in the attack on the compounds in Pul-i-Alam, 50 kilometres (30 miles) south of Kabul, but other casualties could not be confirmed immediately, government officials said.
"At 12:30 the governor's building came under rocket attack from close range," Din Mohammad Darwish, spokesman for Logar provincial government, told AFP by telephone. Gunfire could be heard in the background.
The attackers were holed up in a multi-storey building from where they were exchanging fire with security forces, he said.
Interior ministry spokesman Zemarai Bashary told AFP that one policeman was killed. "Joint security forces have surrounded the attackers and soon they will be either arrested or killed," he said.
Bashary rejected a Taliban claim that suicide attackers had entered the governor's office and said that foreign troops were helping Afghan forces repel the attack. NATO and US troops could not immediately confirm involvement.
"Taliban are armed with RPGs (rocket-propelled grenades), AKs and PK machine guns and they keep opening fire at the governor's office and police headquarters," Darwish told AFP.
A spokesman for the Taliban, Zabihullah Mujahed, said that six suicide attackers had entered the building and 21 people had been killed.
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