Armed men wearing suicide vests stormed a building in the East of the Afghanistan Sunday at the start of the Government and engaged in a shoot-out with the Afghan security forces surrounding the compound, officials said.
The attack came a day after that a Taliban bomber infiltrated the main hospital in the capital military and killed at least six Afghan medical students.
Incident Sunday, a guard was killed as the attackers - three or four men armed with rifles and explosives wear to their body, shot them was in the Department of traffic compound on the edge of the city of Khost at about 5 o'clock in the morningsaid GEN Raz Mohammad Oryakhail, the Commander of the army for the province of Khost.
The gunbattle was still more than two hours later, with the attackers in the second floor of the building and shot dead, police and soldiers outside he said.
Police and soldiers were trying to avoid to launch a full assault because they did not want the gunmen to detonate their suicide vests, said provincial Police Chief Abdul Hakim Ishaqzai GEN. Afghan security forces had surrounded the compound, he said.
Nobody has claimed immediately for the attack, but he is the patron of the Taliban attacks on Government facilities.
The Afghan National Army soldiers arrive at the main military hospital in Kabul, Kabul, Afghanistan Saturday, May 21, 2011. The Afghan Defence Ministry, said that a suicide bomber blow up himself in a tent filled with medical students eat lunch in a hospital in Kabul Saturday, killing at least six people and injuring 23.On Saturday, a Taliban suicide bomber on a mission to target the teams medical foreign-run at least six students in Afghan medicine and 23 others injured after infiltrating the main military hospital in Kabul, officials said.
The attack was a blow to the Afghan forces and NATO, which have considerably expanded points cords of security in the capital as the Taliban and control intensified their attacks in advance a sampling of U.S. expected in July.
None of the foreign doctors or nurses were among the dead or wounded, said the Afghan officials and NATO. There are a number of military doctors and nurses from various NATO countries to the hospital in the mission of the alliance to train Afghan forces.
All those killed were eating lunch in a tent used by students in medicine for meals, said the Defence Ministry spokesman General Mohammed Zaher.
The attack was condemned by the Afghan President Hamid Karzai and NATO. The Organization of the United Nations called it a violation of "international humanitarian law".
The Taliban stepped up attacks in their spring offensive against NATO, the Afghan Government facilities and officials. Insurgents have also promised revenge attacks after the killing of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden by U.S. forces in Pakistan earlier this month.
The effectiveness of the campaign of the Taliban will be in part determine the size of the levy provided for the President Barack Obama of US troops. He said that its size will depend on conditions on the ground.
NATO is committed to hand over security control to Afghans by 2014.
Spokesman for the Taliban Zabiullah Mujahid said trainers targeted Saturday attack on foreign and Afghan doctors who work with them. According to him, two bombers took part, but only the Defence Ministry spokesman General Mohammad Zahir Azimi said was involved in the attack at the military hospital of Mohammad Daud Khan.
The Taliban have promised to carry out attacks in large metropolitan areas, and earlier this month here has tried to support key government installations in the South of Kandahar city - which was once their capital and the fortress. But this attack was a failure and more than two dozen activists have been killed.
