Six killed in attack on Afghan intelligence agency

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By Rafiq Shirzad JALALABAD Afghanistan (Reuters) - Six people were killed and dozens wounded when two suicide car bombers and Taliban gunmen attacked an office of the Afghan intelligence agency in the eastern city of Jalalabad on Saturday, a provincial government spokesman said. Seven militants were also killed during several hours of heavy fighting with Afghan security forces at the Jalalabad headquarters of the National Directorate of Security (NDS), said Ahmad Zeya Abdulzai, a spokesman for the governor of eastern Nangarhar province near the border with Pakistan. Abdulzai said four NDS agents and two civilians were killed when a truck and a smaller car, both loaded with explosives, attacked the compound and a gunfight between Afghan forces and insurgents broke out.

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