State-run TV station under attack in east Afghanistan

Ten people, including four assailants were killed during a gun-and-bomb attack on the regional headquarters of state-run Radio Television Afghanistan (RTA) in eastern Jalalabad city on Wednesday, a provincial governor told local media.

Jalalabad is the provincial capital of Nangarhar province, located east of the capital, Kabul.

The RTA office is located in the heart of the city close to the headquarters of the provincial government and the main market.

Daesh claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement.

Speaking to reporters in Jalalabad, Nangarhar Governor Gulab Mangal said among the dead were four civilians and two policemen, according to radio Salam Afghanistan.

The attack began at around 10 a.m. local time (0530 GMT) when two suicide bombers detonated their explosives at the gate of the RTA building. The bombing had paved the way for the other two attackers to enter the RTA premises. Security forces later managed to take the situation under control by killing these two attackers.

Mangal confirmed the attack on the TV station building had come to an end.

Nangarhar has been marred by pro-Daesh insurgency with strongholds of the terror group's militants said to be in southern Achin, Kot and Bati Kot districts near the border with Pakistan.

This is the fifth major attack claimed by Daesh in the last seven months in Afghanistan.

On May 3, Daesh said it carried out the suicide attack in the capital Kabul that killed eight civilians. Other attacks include the Sardar Mohammad Dawood Khan Hospital incident in March that left up to 50 people dead; suicide attack on Supreme Court in February that claimed 22 lives; and twin-suicide attack on Shia protesters last year that killed 80 people.