Fighting goes on near Kabul US embassy

Deadly fighting that has erupted near the US embassy and NATO headquarters in Kabul is still underway, Press TV reports.

At least two gunmen were hiding in the multi-story building from which the militants had started their attacks on the heavily-fortified embassy on Tuesday and gunfire could be heard early Wednesday.

CIA Director David Petraeus said on Tuesday that a “handful of individuals” entered a building that was under construction several hundred meters from the mission and then opened fire and fired rocket-propelled grenades at the area of the embassy.

Four civilians, two policemen and six militants have been killed in the violence, an Afghan official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said.