Suicide bombers target Afghan cities, kill 4: officials

A group of Taliban suicide bombers tried to storm government buildings and a military base in two cities in eastern Afghanistan killing four people on Tuesday, officials said.

A British soldier with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force on patrol near Kabul. A group of Taliban suicide bombers tried to storm government buildings and a military base in two cities in eastern Afghanistan killing four people on Tuesday, officials said.

Six suicide bombers, some of them also carrying guns, tried to enter several government buildings in Gardez but were shot dead before reaching their targets, Rohullah Samoon, a provincial government spokesman told AFP.

"One of the bombers detonated in front of the intelligence department killing three intelligence officers. The other bombers were killed by security forces," he added.

Two other bombers were killed in exchanges of fire with police in Jalalabad as they tried to fight their way into the city airport, a base for Afghan and foreign troops forces, said the relevant spokesman, Ahmad Zia Abdulzai.

He could not give more details but a doctor in the city's hospital told AFP that one dead policeman was brought to the hospital.