Taliban carry out brazen attack inside Afghan government ministry

KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) - As Afghanistan considers whether to engage in
talks with the Taliban, the militant group carried out a brazen daylight attack
in the Afghan capital on Thursday when three suicide bombers stormed a
government ministry.

Two of the bombers opened fire on guards outside the Ministry of
Information and Culture, while the other bomber detonated inside the government
building, Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said.

Kabul's deputy police chief, Alishah Ahmadzai, said five people were killed and 12 wounded - six
critically. But the Taliban claimed to have killed six guards in the attack, which it said targeted "foreign advisers" at the ministry.