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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Search Search: Taliban attack Afghan town, nine dead: govt AFP - Wednesday, May 13 KHOST, Afghanistan (AFP) - - Taliban attackers in burkas and uniforms stormed government offices in Afghanistan in a brazen suicide bomb and gun assault Tuesday that killed up to nine people, officials said. ADVERTISEMENT More than another two dozen people were wounded in the eastern town of Khost, including a US soldier who fought alongside Afghan troops and police to end the orchestrated militant attack, officials said. It took nearly six hours for combined forces to stop the militants who targeted the offices of the provincial governor and municipality, the Afghan defence ministry said. There were 11 attackers and they were all killed, it said in a statement, putting the toll at nine Afghans dead and 16 wounded. The interior ministry said there were 10 attackers, one of whom tried to ram the governor's offices with a car bomb that exploded outside, killing four security guards on the spot. The others targeted the nearby municipality, four of them blowing themselves up outside the building as the remainder stormed inside apparently intent on taking hostages, it said. "They were eliminated by the Afghan National Security Forces after a brief resistance," a ministry statement said. Two civilians were killed at the municipality, the interior ministry said, putting the final death toll at six Afghans with 28 people wounded. The extremist Taliban movement said it was responsible for the attack, claiming to have dispatched 30 militants into the small town about 20 kilometres (12 miles) from the border with Pakistan. The assault mimicked one in Kabul on February 11, when eight attackers besieged two government compounds sparking nearly a day of fighting that left 26 Afghans dead. They had also wanted to take hostages, officials said. That was of the most ambitious attacks since the Taliban regime was overthrown in a 2001 US-led invasion. Analysts say combined suicide and gun assaults show an increasingly sophisticated insurgent Taliban. Explosions and gunfire rang out in Khost for much of Tuesday as hundreds of Afghan and US security forces deployed in the town, sealing off roads and taking positions in the streets, an AFP reporter said. Khost provincial police chief Abdul Qayoum Baqizoi said some of the attackers were "terrorists wearing burkas" -- the all-covering garment that most Afghan women wear. Witnesses and the interior ministry said some wore security force uniforms. A municipal employee said the militants blasted open the door of the municipal building with a rocket-propelled grenade. "Most of the people managed to escape but there still are six or seven people inside," said the man, who gave his name only as Marouf, hours before the drama ended. A spokesman for the US military, Chief Brian Naranjo, confirmed that a quick reaction force was deployed to help the Afghan forces. One US soldier was wounded, he said. The largest US military base in eastern Afghanistan lies on the outskirts of Khost, which has come under regular attack. "Thirty of our fighters armed with suicide cars, suicide jackets and guns have entered the city," Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahed told AFP. "They have targeted several government buildings, including the governor's office and the police headquarters, where they have killed several government personnel," he said by telephone. The Taliban warned last month they would step up their action this year, targeting government officials as well as the Afghan and international forces trying to thwart the extremist threat that is also growing in Pakistan. The insurgency has steadily escalated over the past seven years forcing US President Barack Obama to announce in February a new strategy in Afghanistan. The plan will see Washington deploy an extra 21,000 US troops to the impoverished and largely rural country, and puts pressure on Pakistan to deal with the militant sanctuaries on its soil. 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