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World News
November 28, 2018 / 8:19 AM / Updated 7 hours ago
Gunmen attack UK contractors' compound in Afghan capital, at least 10 dead
Abdul Qadir Sediqi, Hamid Shalizi

KABUL (Reuters) - Gunmen attacked a British security contractors’ compound in the Afghan capital Kabul on Wednesday, killing at least 10 people and wounding 19 only hours after President Ashraf Ghani outlined plans for peace in Afghanistan.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, started when a car bomb exploded outside a facility of the G4S security group on the main road leading out of Kabul toward eastern Afghanistan.

“A number of gunmen entered the G4S compound right after the car bomb,” said Najib Danish, an Interior Ministry spokesman.

Read more at: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-afghanistan-blast/gunmen-attack-uk-contractors-compound-in-afghan-capital-at-least-10-dead-idUSKCN1NX1QP

From pictures I'm seeing, those attacked (and survived), don't appear to be obviously British. There's still some questions about this.