"We can confirm that there is an ongoing incident in the diplomatic area of Kabul. We are in close contact with the embassy, all staff are accounted for," it said, while Foreign Office sources added that there had been no injuries.
Suicide bombers struck across Afghanistan on Sunday in coordinated attacks claimed by Taliban insurgents as the start of a spring offensive.
The German and Japanese embassy compounds were reported hit as militants attacked the city`s diplomatic enclave and tried to storm parliament -- sparking a gunbattle in which lawmakers and bodyguards fired back from the rooftop.
The embassies of the United States and Britain were also targeted, the spokesman for NATO`s International Security Assistance Force, General Carsten Jacobson, said. (*)
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