2 minutes read Kabul, Aug 3 (EFE).- A Tuesday evening attack on Afghan Defense Minister Bismillah Khan Mohammadi’s home in this capital triggered an hours-long gun battle that left at least eight dead – including the four assailants – and 11 wounded. Mohammadi was not at home at the time and was unharmed. “Initial information shows attackers were four, all killed,” Interior Ministry spokesman Mirwais Stanekzai told Efe after the insurgent attack that began with a car-bomb blast. In an earlier statement, Stanekzai confirmed the end of the fighting and the conclusion of a special forces “clearance operation,” adding that “Afghan security forces rescued several civilians from the site of the attack.”