KABUL: Militants stormed an intelligence agency training facility in Kabul yesterday, officials said, triggering intense fighting with police in the latest Islamic State group attack to hit the Afghan capital, reports AFP.

“Around 10:10 am, a group of armed attackers entered an under-construction building in (the) NDS training centre in (the) Afshar area of Kabul,” interior ministry spokesman Najib Danish told AFP, referring to the National Directorate of Security, Afghanistan’s spy agency. “The fighting is ongoing and we have also launched our operation.”

Nasrat Rahim, a deputy interior ministry spokesman, said the sound of large and small arms fire could be heard from the fighting.

“There are three attackers involved... the clearance operation is ongoing,” said the spokesman, adding there were no immediate reports of any casualties.

Roads to the area were closed and dozens of police and intelligence officers were blocking access to the public. AFP reporters, who were held more than a kilometre away from the scene, saw ambulances and reinforcements headed towards the site.