Taliban bombers, gunmen hit Kabul election office --- KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban launched a brazen assault in the Afghan capital on Tuesday, with two suicide bombers detonating their explosives outside an election office on the city’s outskirts and other attackers storming inside the premises. -- The attack was the latest in the insurgents’ violent campaign against the country’s April 5 presidential polls.-- Fierce gunfire reverberated across the neighborhood in the early afternoon, as heavily armed troops from the Afghan rapid response force surrounded the office building, located near the home of presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai. He was not home at the time of the attack, officials said. -- Police official Sayed Gul Aga Hashmi said the assault on the provincial office of Afghanistan’s Independent Election Commission started with two suicide attackers. -- One attacker detonated his car and the other set off his explosives’ vest, paving way for at least four other attackers to storm inside the building, said Hashimi, though the precise number of insurgents was not immediately clear. -- As the battle unfolded, about 20 election workers were trapped inside the building, according to an election commission official who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to media. -- He said he had spoken to a colleague who was hiding inside the building’s bathroom with seven others and who told him there were about 12 more employees inside the building. -- Insurgents were also still inside the building, the employee recounted but couldn’t say whether any of his colleagues elsewhere in the building had been hurt, the official said. -- Insurgents were also still inside the building, the employee recounted but couldn’t say whether any of his colleagues elsewhere in the building had been hurt, the official said. -- There were no immediate reports of casualties in the attack. The Taliban claimed responsibility in a statement to media, saying their target was the election center. -- The insurgents have vowed to disrupt the April 5 elections, a vote that will chose Afghanistan’s next president and provincial council members. - Associated Press, Washingtonpost