Gunmen attack Afghan election office

25 March 2014 Last updated at 11:58

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The BBC's Harun Najafizada visited the scene of the attack

The Taliban have launched a gun and bomb attack on an office of the Afghan election commission in Kabul, less than two weeks before presidential polls.

Two policemen were killed and two other police wounded in the battle with the insurgents, the interior ministry said, adding that five gunmen were also dead.

There were no immediate reports of casualties among election workers.

The Taliban, who have vowed to disrupt the 5 April vote and are boycotting it, said they carried out the attack.

Reports said fighting was still going on, four hours after it began.

"At around 11:35 am [0705 GMT] a suicide bomber blew himself up at the gate of an IEC regional office in Darulaman, and then several other attackers entered the building," Kabul police spokesman Hashmat Estanakzai was reported as saying by AFP news agency.

Interior ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqi said "cleaning up" operations were going on at the election commission compound on the city's outskirts.

Initial reports said the nearby home of candidate Ashraf Ghani had come under fire, but shortly afterwards police said the provincial election HQ was the focus of the attack.

The attack is the latest in the run-up to the vote to choose a successor to Hamid Karzai.

It was not immediately clear how many attackers were involved in the assault on the election commission compound.

Ashraf Ghani is a former finance minister and World Bank official, and a leading candidate in the race succeed Hamid Karzai.

Mr Ghani is running for election on a ticket with the former Uzbek warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum.

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