Suicide Attack at Government Building in Afghanistan Kills 7 KABUL, Afghanistan - Three suicide attackers stormed a government building in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, setting off a seven-hour gunfight with Afghan soldiers and police officers that left 10 people dead, including the three attackers, the Afghan police said. Three police officers and four government workers were killed in the attack on the building, the government telecommunications ministry, in Sharana, the capital of Paktika Province, said Dawlat Khan Zadran, the provincial chief of police. Another police officer and two government workers were wounded, he said. Paktika, where the Taliban have been active, sits along the Pakistan border. The attackers, wearing suicide vests and carrying rocket-propelled grenades and AK47 assault rifles, entered the building around 9 a.m., the police chief said. They shot one guard at the entrance and another guard returned fire, killing one of the attackers. The other two sought cover in the upper floors of the three-story building, where they exchanged fire with Afghan Army soldiers and police officers who surrounded the ministry. Eventually two explosions were heard. It was not clear whether the attackers had set off their suicide vests or the explosions were caused by the rocket-propelled grenades. The attack left the government ministry, which is in the center of the city, badly damaged. United States Special Forces were present at the stand-off, the provincial police chief said. A spokesman for the coalition forces in Afghanistan confirmed that coalition personnel were present in support of the Afghan response, but the spokesman said that according to policy, he could not say whether they were from United States Special Forces. In a separate attack, four Afghan military personnel were killed and 10 others were wounded when a military base in Kunar Province came under mortar and rocket attack, according to Wasifullah Wasifi, a spokesman for the Kunar provincial government. Farouq Jan Mangal contributed reporting from Khost, Afghanistan.