At least 12 people were injured when gunmen stormed a crowded government building in eastern
Afghanistan Wednesday after a suicide bomber attack, with desperate survivors leaping from windows to escape the fighting, witnesses and officials said.
Security forces rushed to the scene after armed men attacked the office in Jalalabad, capital of eastern Nangarhar province, in the latest violence to hit the war-torn country as it gears up for a presidential
election on September 28.
Terrified children at a nearby school climbed over walls to get further away from the fighting.