At least 6 killed and 63 injured in Taliban attack in Mazar-e-Sharif

#Taliban #mazaresharif #Afghanistan #Balkh Taliban gunmen, dressed in military uniforms, stormed the office of the attorney general in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e-Sharif and killed at least six people and injured 63 as reported in bbc.com dated 9 April 2015.
As revealed by witnesses, a group of five attackers enter the office, followed by heavy gunfire and several explosions. The dead included a local police chief and two officers while another 26 officials of the government were among the injured. A spokesman for the Taliban has confirmed that it carried out the attack.

It was a siege that lasted for six hours and all five gunmen were killed by the Afghan National Security Forces which had surrounded the area. The police rescued the attorney general from his office, which is just 200m (650ft) from the office of the governor of Balkh province.
The chief doctor at the Balkh Provincial Hospital has confirmed the number of those dead and injured as 6 and 63 respectively.
The Taliban has been targeting Afghanistan's legal system continuously. In June 2013, it had detonated a car bomb in front of the compound of Afghanistan's Supreme Court in which 17 were killed and another 39 were wounded.

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