Armed militants attack temple in Afghanistan's Kabul, casualties feared

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Xinhuanet
Editor
Li Jiayao
Time
2020-03-25 17:09:34

KABUL, March 25 (Xinhua) -- Armed militants including suicide bombers attacked a temple in Afghanistan's Kabul on Wednesday with casualties feared, a spokesman for Interior Ministry Tareq Arian said.

According to the official, the armed militants sneaked into the temple in the first Police District of Kabul city at 7:45 a.m. local time and security forces in sharp reaction cordoned off the area and tried to clean the temple from the attacking insurgents.

However, an eyewitness at nearby of the temple said on the condition of anonymity that he had heard two blasts so far.

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