(15 Apr 2012) Gardez
1. Mid of explosion at a building containing militants across from a university in the city of Gardez
2. Various of dust rising from the building
3. Mid of the building after the attack
4. Close-up of debris inside the building
Kabul
5. Mid of explosion in a building containing militants in Kabul
6. Wide of diplomatic area
7. Another explosion close to the last one
8. Mid of policemen running while carrying dead body of a policeman
9. Mid of a policeman''s dead body on the ground next to a police vehicle
10. Reverse of a security forces member shooting with assault rifle
11. Close-up of firing into the building; zoom out
12. SOUNDBITE: (Dari) Ahmad Zaki, eyewitness:
"I was in my workshop and I heard the sound of shooting. I saw two men come down from a black-glassed Land Cruiser, they were wearing local clothes, one of them opened fire on a policeman and killed him."
13. Mid of building being fired at
Kaspia
14. Various of military truck carrying the wreckage of the police car
15. Close-up of the debris at the scene of the attack
16. Mid of young boy digging
17. SOUNDBITE: (Dari) Mohammad Nasir, eyewitness:
"There was a big explosion, I saw a big wreckage in the air, then we learned that four policemen have been killed, the bodies of three of them were in a garden and another body was in a field over there."
18. Wide of man with shovel
19. Close-up of a car passing over the blast site
20. Wide of crater being filled as villagers watch
21. Close-up of debris
22. Wide of the scene of the attack
STORYLINE
The Taliban launched a series of coordinated attacks across the Afghan capital and at least three eastern provinces on Sunday, targeting NATO bases, parliament and foreign embassies in a complex assault that showed the insurgents could still penetrate Afghan security and hit Western and government targets in the heart of Kabul.
Suicide bombers and insurgents wielding heavy weapons and rocket-propelled grenades executed the near-simultaneous attacks in what the Taliban called an opening salvo ahead of the spring fighting season, when warmer weather typically brings increased attacks.
The attacks, the most widespread in the Afghan capital since September, came as the US-led international force is speeding up the transfer of security responsibility to the Afghans in preparation for an end to NATO''s combat mission in 2014.
The scale and scope of the violence underscored the challenge that Afghan security forces have in protecting even the country''s centres of power.
The Taliban claimed that Afghan and foreign troops suffered heavy casualties, but reports from Afghan authorities showed the assaults were noisy, but not deadly.
The Ministry of Interior reported that 17 militants were killed in the attacks in Kabul, Paktia, Nangarhar and Logar provinces.
Seventeen police - 11 in Kabul and three each in Logar and Paktia provinces - were wounded, the ministry said.
Eyewitnesses described the attack.
"I was in my workshop and I heard the sound of shooting. I saw two men come down from a black-glassed Land Cruiser, they were wearing local clothes, one of them opened fire on a policeman and killed him," Ahmad Zaki said.
Mohammad Nasir said that he saw an explosion.
"Then we learned that four policemen have been killed, the bodies of three of them were in a garden and another body was in a field over there," he added.
Fourteen civilians also were injured in the attacks.
So far this year, 105 NATO service members have been killed in Afghanistan.
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