USAID compound attacked in Afghanistan, 4 killed

Kabul: Officials say six suicide bombers have stormed a USAID compound in northern Afghanistan, killing at least four people and wounding several others.

At least two of the dead were foreigners.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, which began about 3:30 am Friday in Kunduz when a suicide car bomber blew a hole in the wall around the compound.

At least five other attackers wearing explosive vests ran inside the building, killing or wounding people inside before dying in a gunbattle with Afghan security forces.

Gen. Abdul Razaq Yaqoubi, police chief in Kunduz province, said those killed included an Afghan policeman, an Afghan man who worked as a security guard at the house and two foreigners.