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Kabul after the attack

Agencies Published April 16, 2012
Smoke rises from the Provincial Reconstruction Team, the site of an attack in Jalalabad on April 15. Suicide bombers struck across Afghanistan in coordinated attacks, with explosions and gunfire rocking the diplomatic enclave in the capital as militants took over buildings and tried to enter parliament. Outside the capital, attackers also targeted government buildings in Logar province, the airport in Jalalabad, and a police facility in the town of Gardez in Paktya province. ? Photo by AFP
Smoke rises from the Provincial Reconstruction Team, the site of an attack in Jalalabad on April 15. Suicide bombers struck across Afghanistan in coordinated attacks, with explosions and gunfire rocking the diplomatic enclave in the capital as militants took over buildings and tried to enter parliament. Outside the capital, attackers also targeted government buildings in Logar province, the airport in Jalalabad, and a police facility in the town of Gardez in Paktya province. ? Photo by AFP
An Afghan police officer uses a mobile phone to photograph the dead body of an insurgent lying on the floor of a room with bullet riddled walls in Kabul on April 16. All militants involved in a wave of attacks in Afghanistan's capital were killed, authorities said on April 16. The heavily armed rebels stormed several areas of Kabul on April 15, targeting government buildings, embassies and military bases in an assault that ended 17 hours later. ? Photo by AFP
An Afghan police officer uses a mobile phone to photograph the dead body of an insurgent lying on the floor of a room with bullet riddled walls in Kabul on April 16. All militants involved in a wave of attacks in Afghanistan's capital were killed, authorities said on April 16. The heavily armed rebels stormed several areas of Kabul on April 15, targeting government buildings, embassies and military bases in an assault that ended 17 hours later. ? Photo by AFP
A police officer secures a room of a building which was used by insurgents who attacked the parliament building the day before, in Kabul on April 16. ? Photo by AFP
A police officer secures a room of a building which was used by insurgents who attacked the parliament building the day before, in Kabul on April 16. ? Photo by AFP
Afghan soldiers are seen at a construction site where an explosion took place during a battle between Afghan forces and Taliban insurgents including suicide bombers in Kabul April 16. Heavy explosions, rockets and gunfire rattled Kabul on Sunday as Afghanistan's Taliban launched a 'spring offensive? with multiple attacks targeting Western embassies, the Nato force's headquarters and the parliament building. ? Photo by Reuters
Afghan soldiers are seen at a construction site where an explosion took place during a battle between Afghan forces and Taliban insurgents including suicide bombers in Kabul April 16. Heavy explosions, rockets and gunfire rattled Kabul on Sunday as Afghanistan's Taliban launched a 'spring offensive? with multiple attacks targeting Western embassies, the Nato force's headquarters and the parliament building. ? Photo by Reuters
An Afghan woman cries as she talks on the phone to her family during a gun battle in Kabul, Afghanistan, April 15. The Taliban launched a series of coordinated attacks on at least seven sites across the Afghan capital on Sunday, targeting NATO headquarters, the parliament and diplomatic residences. Militants also launched near-simultaneous assaults in three other eastern cities. ? Photo by AP
An Afghan woman cries as she talks on the phone to her family during a gun battle in Kabul, Afghanistan, April 15. The Taliban launched a series of coordinated attacks on at least seven sites across the Afghan capital on Sunday, targeting NATO headquarters, the parliament and diplomatic residences. Militants also launched near-simultaneous assaults in three other eastern cities. ? Photo by AP
Afghans look at the body of a militant who was shot at a security booth after a gun battle in Kabul, Afghanistan, April 16. A brazen, 18-hour Taliban attack on the Afghan capital ended early Monday when insurgents who had holed up overnight in two buildings were overcome by heavy gunfire from Afghan-led forces and pre-dawn air assaults from US-led coalition helicopters. ? Photo by AP
Afghans look at the body of a militant who was shot at a security booth after a gun battle in Kabul, Afghanistan, April 16. A brazen, 18-hour Taliban attack on the Afghan capital ended early Monday when insurgents who had holed up overnight in two buildings were overcome by heavy gunfire from Afghan-led forces and pre-dawn air assaults from US-led coalition helicopters. ? Photo by AP
A Nato soldier aims his weapon during a gun battle in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, April 15. The Taliban launched a series of coordinated attacks on as many as seven sites across the Afghan capital on Sunday, targeting NATO bases, the parliament and Western embassies. Militants also launched near-simultaneous assaults in three other eastern cities. ? Photo by AP
A Nato soldier aims his weapon during a gun battle in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, April 15. The Taliban launched a series of coordinated attacks on as many as seven sites across the Afghan capital on Sunday, targeting NATO bases, the parliament and Western embassies. Militants also launched near-simultaneous assaults in three other eastern cities. ? Photo by AP
Security personnel cordon off the wreckages of cars in front of a building with broken windows in Kabul on April 16. A total of 36 Taliban militants were killed as they mounted a wave of attacks across Afghanistan, Interior Minister Bismillah Mohammadi said on April 16. ? Photo by AP
Security personnel cordon off the wreckages of cars in front of a building with broken windows in Kabul on April 16. A total of 36 Taliban militants were killed as they mounted a wave of attacks across Afghanistan, Interior Minister Bismillah Mohammadi said on April 16. ? Photo by AP

Gunmen launch multiple attacks in the Afghan capital Kabul, assaulting Western embassies and the parliament. - Photos by Agencies, video by Reuters

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