KABUL: Militants launched a suicide attack near Kabul airport shortly after dawn on Monday, police said, with loud explosions and gunfire heard close to the site in the Afghan capital.

Several blasts and bursts of small-arms fire erupted for about one hour and were ongoing, with the US embassy sounding its "duck and cover" alarm and its loudspeakers warning that the alarm was not a drill.

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