Taleban militants blasted their way into a US consulate in western Afghanistan yesterday and fought an hour-long gun battle as they tried to overrun the building. At least six attackers arrived by truck before starting to fire on the well-protected building in the provincial capital of Herat.
One of them detonated the explosives-laden truck to blow open the gate, a common tactic of the Taleban. The remaining insurgents swept into the compound carrying rifles and rocket-propelled grenades but met stiff resistance from both US and Afghan forces.
All the militants wore suicide vests but were killed before they could detonate