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By Masoud Popalzai and Laura Smith-Spark, CNN

updated 6:44 AM EST, Wed December 17, 2014

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Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Afghan security forces stormed a bank branch besieged by insurgents in Helmand province Wednesday, ending a deadly attack, police said.

Five civilians, one police officer and two army soldiers were killed, said Farid Ahmad Obaid, a spokesman for the police chief of southern Helmand province.

Fourteen others, nine civilians among them, were wounded, Obaid said. He warned that the death toll could go up since at least one of those injured was in a critical condition

All the attackers were killed in the operation to end the siege, Obaid said.

Four armed insurgents attacked the Kabul Bank office in the provincial capital of Lashkar Gah shortly before noon, he said.

The first attacker, who was riding a motorbike, blew himself up outside the bank branch, while three others stormed inside the building, he said.

Obaid said the gun battle between the Afghan security forces and the assailants lasted about 90 minutes before the militants were killed.

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By Adam Kredo

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U.S. officials are warning that wide-ranging deficiencies in an aging 55-mile gas pipeline in Afghanistan could suffer from a catastrophic failure if the United States does not take immediate steps to repair vulnerable areas.

Afghanistans Sheberghan-Mazar pipeline has suffered from years of corrosion, according to government oversight authorities.

Despite an estimated $14 million U.S. reconstruction effort along the pipeline, engineers still have not succeeded in fixing vulnerable areas, according to the Special Investigator General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), a government oversight body.

While the Pentagons Task Force for Business and Stability Operations (TFBSO) in the war torn country has invested millions to rebuild unsafe areas of the line, the project is not yet complete and TFBSO will soon cease its work in Afghanistan as the United States wraps up operations there, according to a warning letter sent by SIGAR to outgoing Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel.

SIGARs findings highlight larger concerns by many that Afghanistan will rapidly collapsepotentially into violenceas the United States withdraws and hands key responsibilities back to the central government.

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