(25 May 2013)
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1. Various of Afghan police vehicles near scene of gun battle
2. Close of police officer with weapon
3. Various of police officers near scene of gun battle
4. Officers getting into vehicle
5. SOUNDBITE: (Dari) Mohammad Ayoub Salangi, Kabul Police Chief:
"Six attackers who had entered the vicinity were killed. With God's grace, there aren't any known fatalities among our police forces. Only one policeman was martyred in the beginning of the incident, and a Nepalese guard. In total, 13 people were wounded, including the guards in the area and civilians."
6. Close of police weapon
7. Tilt up from gun to officer
STORYLINE:
Afghan security forces put to an end a nearly seven-hour-long battle with Taliban gunmen in the capital, Kabul, on Friday.
Taliban gunmen backed by a suicide car bomber attacked an international aid group's compound - killing two guards and setting off an hours-long street battle with police in the heart of the city.
A heavy police presence was felt in the vicinity of the compound later on Friday.
The attack - the second in the city in just over a week - also left four International Organisation for Migration workers wounded including an Italian woman badly burned by a grenade.
Thirteen police were wounded while all six attackers died in the assault, authorities said.
"Six attackers who had entered the vicinity were killed," said Kabul's police chief, Mohammad Ayoub Salangi.
At the chaotic scene of the siege, dozens of Afghan police took cover behind blast walls and rushed around through a thick cloud of smoke made by the bomb.
The Taliban quickly claimed responsibility for the assault, the second major strike inside Kabul in a little more than a week.
The insurgents have unleashed a wave of bombings and assassinations around the country, testing Afghan security forces' ability to respond with less help from international forces who have begun a withdrawal that will see most foreign troops gone by the end of 2014.

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