Afghan police head to the scene of an attack in Kabul on 15 April 2012. The Afghan capital Kabul has come under what appear to be co-ordinated attacks Photograph: Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images Reuters are reporting that the Afghan Taliban has said the coordinated attacks are the start of an insurgent spring offensive and had been planned for months. "These attacks are the beginning of the spring offensive and we had planned them for months," Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told Reuters. It is not currently known how many people have been killed in today's sustained attacks in Kabil. Associated Press reports that there are no immediate reports of people killed in the fighting although at least five people have so far been reported wounded. Reuters are reporting that several Afghan lawmakers fought back against Taliban insurgents. "I'm the representative of my people and I have to defend them," Kandahar lawmaker Naeem Hameedzai Lalai told Reuters. Activist, Wazhma Frogh, of the Afghan Women's Network says she has just dogged a bullet Afghan National Army soldiers hold positions near the scene of an attack in Kabul. Photograph: Shah Marai/AFP/Getty Images Pictures arriving from the scene in Kabul. This shows both the police and army are now on the streets. Associated Press reports that the attacks are focused in three diplomatic neighbourhoods in Kabul: Militants launched a series of coordinated attacks in the Afghan capital Sunday, with blasts and gunfire rocking three neighborhoods that are home to Afghan government buildings, Western embassies and NATO bases. The attacks were the first in the heavily guarded capital since a shooting inside the Interior Ministry in February in which a ministry employee turned a gun on NATO advisers and shot two soldiers dead. More than 10 explosions in all rocked the capital Sunday, and heavy gunfire shook the city for more than an hour after the initial blast. There were no immediate reports of casualties. Amie Ferris-Rotman, a Reuters correspondent in Kabul is tweeting live from the scene. It seems the surrounding area of her office in Wazir Akbar Khan, where their office is based, is under sustained attack The Associated Press are reporting that Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid has sent them a text message claiming responsibility for the ongoing assault in Kabul. They report: He said a group of armed suicide bombers launched an attack on the NATO forces headquarters, the parliament building across town and a number of diplomatic residences in Kabul. Last week, Mujahid said in a statement that Taliban planners were preparing to launch a spring offensive. In a statement posted on a Taliban website on Thursday, he said NATO officials should have patience, because Taliban commanders would wait for the "appropriate time" to launch attacks. Emma Graham-Harrison tells us the attacks are widespread. Insurgents also attacked the provincial governor's headquarters and the Nato military base in Logar province south of Kabul. In eastern Jalalabad city the airport, also a Nato military base, was targeted by suicide bombers. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attacks, the first major assault of the year. An Interior Ministry employee with security clearance in February shot dead two Nato advisers working there. A big number of soldiers went to do a spring season operation, that started today in Kabul. The headquarters of ISAF, the NDS office, and the British embassy are under attack," spokesman Zabihullah Mujuahid said. They have suicide vests, heavy weapons like RPG, and hand grenades and assault rifles. A spokesman for the Nato-led coalition said Afghan and foreign forces were responding to attacks in several locations around Kabul but declined further comment. Aminullah Amini, head of the media department of parliament has told reporters what he saw. I saw 7 or 8 rockets fired towards parliament, none of them hit the building, they landed on the streets around. One was near a man on a bike, and he was thrown to the ground and didn't move," he said. "I ran away from the building with several colleagues when the attack started, but many members of parliament are still inside," Amini added. Dispatch from our Kabul correspondent Emma Graham-Harrison just in. She describes the chaos currently unfolding in the diplomatic area of Kabul. The Taliban fired rockets at the Afghan parliament and into the heart of the capital's diplomatic district as part of an ambitious nationwide "spring assault" on government and foreign military and diplomatic headquarters. Several attackers took over a multi-storey hotel on the edge of Kabul's diplomatic district, and used it to attack nearby embassies and foreign military headquarters in the heavily fortified area known locally as the "green zone." Smoke billowed from buildings apparently inside embassy and military compounds, among them a British diplomatic residence, a Reuters' witness reported. An eyewitness saw three bodies in a pickup truck a block away from the attack. In the west of the city insurgents targeted the legislature, and heavy and light machine gunfire echoed through the deserted streets, with students at a nearby university in lockdown. Just spoken to the FCO. They will not confirm that there has been a hit on British diplomatic residence. A spokeswoman said: We can confirm that there in an ongoing incident in the diplomatic area of Kabul. We are in close contact with Embassy staff. 11.40am: A series of explosions followed by sustained gunfire have shaken the Afghan capital Kabul in what appears to be a co-ordinated attack on two areas frequented by Afghan government officials and their international allies. Reuters is reporting that attackers fired a rocket-propelled grenade into a house used by British diplomats in the centre of Kabul. There was no word on any casualties. The Taliban said they and other militant groups were behind a coordinated assault in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Sunday which included attacks on the British and German embassies in the heavily guarded, central diplomatic district. The Taliban also said they were carrying out attacks in several Afghan provinces. We'll bring you full coverage as the situation develops.