Roundup: Taliban attack leaves 14 dead

Fourteen people were killed when four militants wearing police uniforms and equipped with suicide vests and light arms stormed a police compound in Logar's provincial capital Pul-e-Alam on Tuesday, a provincial government spokesman said.

All the four attackers and 10 police personnel died in the attack, spokesman for Logar provincial government Deen Mohammad Darwish said.

"Four terrorists disguised themselves as police personnel and got off a car next to the police compound at lunch time. One of them blew himself up next to entrance gate, enabling three others to enter the dining room," Darwish told reporters.

"Another terrorist blew himself up in the dining room, killing 10 police on the spot and injuring eight others," the spokesman added.

The two remaining militants were gunned down by police in the firefight, which lasted for a while, he said.

However, an official said on condition of anonymity that the number of casualties could go higher as scores of police personnel were in dining room when the attack occurred.

Meanwhile, Zabihullah Mujahid, who claims to speak for the Taliban, told media that the outfit has claimed responsibility for the bloody offensive, while insisting that over two dozen police had been killed and injured.

The attack on police in Logar occurred amid ongoing mopping-up operations against Taliban militants in the outfit's former stronghold the southern Helmand province.

Afghan security forces launched clean-up operations in parts of Helmand province on Sunday and so far scores of Taliban militants have been killed and injured, according to officials. Endi