As many as eight suicide bombers have attacked a police headquarters in eastern Nangarhar province Tuesday morning, killing five police officers and injuring four others, local officials said.
Severn civilians have also been injured in the attacks.
The incident took place about 04:30am local time in Jalalabad, the capital of the province, when an insurgent in a bomb-laden car detonated his vehicle in front of the Rapid Reaction Force headquarters to blast through the gate. Another seven attackers wearing bomb vests then stormed the compound, according to provincial spokesman Ahmad Zia Abdulzai.
Three of the attackers blew themselves up inside the compound and the other four were shot by the security forces in a gunfight that lasted more than an hour, Abdulzai said.
He said that the insurgents were wearing uniforms similar to those worn by the US-led Nato coalition.
The Taliban said it is responsible for the attacks, claiming that dozens of Afghan security forces including Nato-led trainers were killed.
Some Nato forces are based in the compound, but according to Afghan officials none of them were hurt.
The attack comes a day after US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Kabul.