Taliban attack election panel headquarters before Afghan voting

March 30, 2014 00:04

Taliban fighters unleashed a barrage of gunfire and rocket-propelled grenades at the headquarters of Afghanistan's election commission on Saturday, a week before Afghans are to vote for a new president in an election that the Taliban has vowed to disrupt. There were no immediate reports of casualties.

Afghan officials and witnesses said the attack began shortly before 1 p.m. when at least three militants entered a building overlooking the headquarters of the Independent Election Commission, a grassy compound of low-slung buildings on the eastern edge of Kabul.

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