<div>In Afghanistan, gunmen stormed a midwife training centre in the eastern city of Jalalabad today, fighting security forces for several hours and killing three staff. </div>''<div></div>''<div>Provincial government spokesman Attaullah Khogyani said one of the attackers died early in the operation after detonating a suicide bomb but a second held out for several hours before being killed. </div>''<div></div>''<div>A driver and two security guards were killed and seven people were wounded but 63 other people, almost all women, were rescued unharmed from the compound, which contained a training facility and a student residence.</div>''<div></div>''<div>There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack. It is not clear why the midwife training centre was targeted.</div>