At Least 5 Killed, Dozens Wounded In Firefight With Gunmen At Attorney’s Office In Afghanistan – 9 April 2015

Five people were killed and close to 30 injured, according to hospital officials, after gunmen stormed an attorney’s office in northern Afghanistan. A firefight with security forces is still ongoing, explosions can be heard.

Smoke coming out of Attorney General's office in Balkh. Rounds of shooting still heard on and off pic.twitter.com/JJTE7q9mPF

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“Our initial information shows that armed men entered the provincial Appeals Court in Mazar-i-Sharif today,” the acting police chief for the Balkh province, Abdul Raziq Qaderi, told AFP.

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