Kamikaze against UN headquarters in Herat

Suicide bombers and rockets. There were two deaths among the Afghan police. The Taliban claimed the attack. We continue to search for two terrorists disguised as policemen. Two suicide bombers driving a car bomb blew themselves up against the entrance of the UN headquarters in Herat in western Afghanistan. The building is about 5 km as the crow flies from the base of the Italian PRT. One of the leaders of the Taliban in Afghanistan, Mullah Bilal, claimed responsibility for the attack. Immediately after the blast, Afghan police have reported some militants wearing Afghan police uniforms entered the building, which was surrounded by Afghan and NATO troops. The second Unema there would be two deaths among Afghan police forces. While research is still ongoing at least two terrorists disguised as policemen who would have been still in the building. The UN special envoy to Afghanistan, Staffan De Mistura, confirming that the attack was combined with rockets and suicide bombers have said they were put in place measures to defend against an attack made by "people with rocket and wearing explosive belts '. There are no Italians involved. This is what we learn from the command of the Italian contingent, that neither military patrols, or were civilians Italian cooperation in the area at the time of the attack. The province of Herat is under the control of the Italian contingent of ISAF. Some helicopters of the Brigade have taken Julia monitoring from the theater attack. FIRE AND EXPLOSION in Herat - after that two bombers were blown up in front, at least three other militants have penetrated inside the building that sits just outside the city. "The attack is in progress and work closely with local authorities," said the UN spokesman in Kabul, Dan McNorton. From the outside they heard gun shots and explosions. The area was sealed off by police. The attack started shortly after 12:30 local, 10 in the morning in Italy. The attack was confirmed by the Interior Ministry spokesman, Zemarai Bashary. UN said no employee was injured. "There was an attack against our office - said the UN spokesman in Herat, Henri Burgard, who is not in the United Nations headquarters - there were no casualties or injuries, our employees are in the bunker . There were rockets or mortars against the office, and machine guns. " According to a spokesperson at the time of the attack in the building were about twenty people, including foreign workers, drivers and guards. An Interior Ministry spokesman, Zemaray Bashary, confirmed the attack, stating that "there are no more fighting." Last year in an attack on the UN guesthouse in Kabul killed five foreign officials. An anti-American demonstration is under way in central Afghanistan, in the province of Maidan Wardak. This is the report PressTv Iranian TV correspondent, explaining that the protests that erupted after U.S. troops were killed, perhaps by mistake, two students and wounded a third, as reported by some witnesses. The three were aboard a motorcycle along a stretch of road from Kabul to Kahdahar door, when they would be joined by bullets fired by U.S. troops. Shahid Shahidullah, a spokesman for the provincial administration, confirmed to PressTv the incident, saying he was certain that the shots were fired by the U.S. military. The demonstrators blocked the road on which the three were traveling, author asking for justice and put on trial those responsible. No comment has come from the U.S. military. In the meantime we learn that a photographer from the New York Times (NYT) was seriously injured this morning due to the explosion of a landmine while accompanying the U.S. military operation in the south of ' Afghanistan. The NYT writes on his website, explaining that it is the 44 year old Joao Silva, who was seriously injured in the legs near the town of Arghandab. The man was immediately transferred to the NATO base in Khandahar. There are countless wounded among the military. Silva, along with a reporter from the NYT, followed by an operation of patrol of U.S. troops, who for weeks have committed to 'clean up the area of Arghandab, hitting the Taliban operate in it. The operation is part of the broader commitment of NATO troops to secure the area around Kandahar.

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