Afghan officers killed

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Taleban militants killed five Afghan Army officers in Kabul in their first big attack for seven months.

The insurgents opened fire as the officers travelled on a bus on the main road from Kabul to the eastern city of Jalalabad.

It was the first fatal attack in the Afghan capital since May, when six foreign troops were killed by a large suicide car bomb.

The Taleban admitted it had made the latest attack, bringing to an end a period of relative calm as insurgent leaders took part in tentative talks with the Government of President Hamid Karzai.