Roundup: Taliban massive offensive on Afghan southern Kandahar city over with leaving 5 dead

Afghan security forces had finally killed all the Taliban attackers after 17 hours of fighting in Kandahar provincial capital the Kandahar city and ensured security there, on Tuesday, deputy to provincial police chief, Rahmatullah Atrafi said.

"At last all the three attackers had been killed by security forces and the firefight is over," Atrafi told reporters here.

He also admitted that one police and a woman had been killed and three police personnel sustained injuries during the blast and gun battle.

Taliban militants fighting the government to regain power and re-establish their brutal rule in Afghanistan launched massive offensive in the 4th police district of Kandahar city on Monday night which was over Tuesday afternoon.

Three militants equipped with suicide vests, hand grenades and assault rifles occupied a building of Teaching Training Center and from their begun targeting police station at nearby, officials said.

According to security officials, at first a suicide bomber blew himself up at the entrance gate of the building at around 08:00 p. m. local time Monday enabling two others to enter the building and begun shooting around.

However, the security forces after 17 hours of gun battle were able to kill the remaining two insurgents. "Except a lady, no more civilians had been harmed in the conflict," Atrafi asserted.

However, an official on the condition of anonymity said that six police and five civilians had been injured in the suicide bombing and firefight.

Taliban militants in a statement posted on the outfit's website claimed of responsibility for the deadly attack and insisting that several suicide bombers targeted government forces in Kandahar city Monday night and in the clash which lasted for several hours more than two dozen enemies had been killed and injured.

Taliban militants also conducted a similar massive suicide attack against a local court in the eastern Wardak province on Tuesday morning but all the attackers had been killed by security forces.

"Four militants equipped with suicide vests and light arms attacked a local court office in Wardak provincial capital Maidan Shar at around 10:30 a.m. local time Tuesday but all were killed in few minutes by security forces," provincial government spokesman, Attaullah Khogyani, told Xinhua.

He also added that two police personnel were also killed in the firefight.

Since launching the so-called spring offensive by Taliban outfit on April 24, the militancy has increased in Afghanistan as the armed group has launched series deadly offensives in several provinces which have claimed hundreds of lives including militants, security personnel and civilians. Endi