Afghan police search house of parliament member after attack

Afghan police and security officials combed through the wreckage of a member of parliament's house in Kabul on Thursday after an attack by Taliban gunmen in which at least seven people were killed. Broken glass and spent bullet cartridges lay on the bloodstained ground of the heavily fortified house in the district of Khushal Khan belonging to Mir Wali, a member of parliament from the volatile southern province of Helmand. It was really horrible and we couldn't sleep whole the night." The Taliban said 20 people, including senior security officials from Helmand, had been killed in the attack but government officials put the death toll at seven.

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