Eight killed in attacks on British Council in Kabul

SUICIDE attackers stormed a British compound in the Afghan capital yesterday, killing at least eight people in a series of explosions in more than eight hours of gunfighting on the anniversary of the country’s independence from Britain.

A South African and two Britons were inside the Kabul compound when a suicide bomber detonated explosives packed in a car outside the British Council.

Another suicide bomber rushed inside the compound and blew himself up. The twin explosions shattered windows a third of a mile from the site.