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All assailants in attack on Afghan presidential palace killed-police

by Reuters
Tuesday, 25 June 2013 03:50 GMT

KABUL, June 25 (Reuters) - An early morning insurgent attack on Tuesday on Afghanistan's presidential palace has been put down with all the assailants killed, Kabul's police chief said.

General Ayoub Salangi told Reuters the gunfight ended after about 90 minutes with all the attackers killed.

(Reporting by Mirwais Harooni and Dylan Welch, Editing by Ron Popeski)

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