One American was killed in overnight attack on U.S. government building in Kabul, a U.S. Embassy spokesman said.

A building used by the CIA in Kabul came under attack Sunday, U.S. and Afghan officials said, the latest in a series of attacks in the Afghan capital.

Afghan authorities said gunfire was heard in the evening near the Ariana Hotel, a building that former U.S. intelligence officials said was the CIA station in Kabul. The CIA occupied the heavily secured building just blocks from the Afghan presidential palace in late 2001 after the U.S.-led invasion that toppled the Taliban.

There was no immediate word on casualties.

Officials at the U.S.-led coalition headquarters nearby said they heard the gunfire, but did not have details about the incident, FoxNews reported.