2nd LD Writethru: 5 militants killed as in attacks on police station in Afghanistan

Five militants were killed in a six-hour-seige on a police station in Jalalabad city, capital of eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar by Taliban overnight Sunday, police said on Monday.

Nine police personnel and one civilian were wounded by the attack which started at around 11:10 p.m. Sunday, provincial police spokesman, Hazrat Housain Mashriqiwal, told Xinhua.

"About six militants were engaged in the attack. The security forces carried out a counter-attack which ended on early Monday morning. Five militants were killed in the clashes and one militant was detained by security forces," he said.

The armed militants stormed the back gate of the provincial police station where the Fast-Reaction Police Forces' building is located after detonating two car bombs, a police source said.

Meanwhile, a medical source was quoted by local media as saying that 11 civilians, including five children, were wounded by shrapnel and shattered glasses following the blasts.

One police vehicle and parts of the attacked building were destroyed in the city, 120 km east of Afghan capital Kabul.

The Taliban group claimed responsibility for the attack.

The Taliban-led insurgency has been rampant since late April when the militant group launched its so-called annual spring offensive in different places of militancy-plagued Afghanistan which had claimed hundreds of lives including militants, security personnel and civilians. Endi