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The BBC's Harun Najafizadah says staff were being kept in a safe room in a bunker
Taliban insurgents have attacked the headquarters of the Afghan election commission in Kabul, a week before the presidential election, police say.
Gunmen broke into a nearby building, disguised as women, and fired at the election commission with automatic weapons.
Afghan special forces have killed three of the four attackers, police say.
The attack comes a week before presidential elections which the Taliban have vowed to disrupt.
It comes a day after a major onslaught on a building housing foreign aid workers in the Afghan capital.
Taliban spokesperson Zabiullah Mujahid has confirmed to the BBC that the militant group was behind the attack.
'Dressed as women'Kabul police chief General Zahir told the BBC that three of the attackers had been shot and killed by security forces. He said they had been armed with rocket-propelled grenade launchers and other weapons.
Elite forces are still confronting one other insurgent inside the building, he adds.
The assailants were using a three-storey building as a launching pad to attack the heavily guarded compound of the Independent Election Commission (IEC).
Several warehouses in the compounded have been targeted, with at least one containing election materials on fire, a reporter at the scene says.
The owner of the building said the insurgents had entered his house disguised as women, wearing burkas.
The commission is on a specially built site on a main road out of the centre of Kabul to the east, says the BBC's David Loyn in Kabul. It is highly defended, he adds.
No casualties have been reported.
Dozens of employees, who had been inside the IEC compound at the time of the attack, took cover in the basement, Associated Press reports.
IEC spokesman Noor Mohammad Noor said two explosions were heard inside the compound, but that people were safe "in (reinforced) safe rooms".
The group has threatened a campaign of violence to disrupt the polls on 5 April, urging their fighters to attack polling staff, voters and security forces in the run-up to election day.
The latest attack comes hours before the election commission was due to announce details of how many polling stations will be opened.
It is the second attack against an IEC office in the Afghan capital this week.
Recent Taliban attacks include:
- 28 March: Gunmen trap several people inside guest house housing foreign aid workers in Kabul. Officials say they killed a 10-year-old girl playing outside in the street
- 25 March: Taliban suicide bomber strikes IEC office in Kabul, killing two policemen
- 20 March: 18 policemen killed in attack in eastern Afghanistan. Nine killed, including four foreign nationals, in separate attack on an upmarket hotel in Kabul
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