MAZAR-I-SHARIF (AFGHANISTAN) - Afghan security forces on Thursday brought an end to a six-hour gun and grenade siege by Taliban insurgents on a court complex in northern Afghanistan, with the death toll rising to 10.
Afghan security forces arrive at the site of an attack by gunmen at a court complex in Mazar-i-sharif on April 9, 2015
"Five security personnel and five civilians were killed and 66 others were wounded," said Abdul Raziq Qaderi, the acting provincial police chief of Balkh province.