The attack began on Wednesday evening, approx. 19 local time, when hundreds of students attended evening classes. Witnesses say about a loud explosion and the shooting that rocked the university – tells CNN, citing the words of an anonymous representative of the US Department of State. The attackers blew up the gate, through which they got to the campus, and among the relationships there are also reports of blinding bright glow that lit up the area after the outbreak of the American university.
When the university in Kabul shots rang out, dozens of people have fled. Others barricaded themselves in classrooms. – We are dealing with a complex attack – wrote on Twitter Afghan journalists Bilar Sarwary, quoting local police. Professor of chemistry and a US citizen Ahmad Samin the time of the attack he taught. When I heard the explosion, the lights went out in the building. – It was very dark, everyone fled. Everyone shouted – told CNN. The man added that it was “the most horrific attack in his life.” – I was just thinking about my daughter and my son, who is in the US – said Samin.
Social media were on Wednesday evening full of dramatic appeals for help. “They kill us” – wrote on Facebook student Mohammad Anil Quasemi. Among the prisoners was also Massoud Hossaini, photographer, Associated Press awarded the prestigious Pulitzer Prize, which seemed to keep an account of the attack on Twitter. – It may be my last tweets – posted frightened man who hid in a class with fifteen students and who later managed to escape along with nine of them.
Photographer told Associated Press reporters that before the room where he was hiding fell two grenades that wounded several people. – I went to the window to see what happened and saw out a person in normal clothes. – [Man] shot me and shattered glass – said Hossaini which glass pokaleczyło hand. – When I ran I saw someone lying on the ground face down, looked like he was shot in the back – the man reported.
Drama closed on the campus of the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul students and professors lasted nearly ten hours. The police chief in the capital of Afghanistan, Abdul Rahman Rahimi told the BBC that at the moment of the attack on the campus were 750 people. They saved their police, anti-terrorist and special forces, who managed to penetrate the university only on Thursday early morning. – We completed the operation. Two attackers dead – told AFP Fraidoon Obaidi, head of the criminal police in Kabul. Blocked roads and secured the area, they issued a communication to residents avoid surrounding the university. Afghan services also helped American advisors.
Afghan authorities only on Thursday were able to provide the official number of victims. He’s dead thirteen people. Among them are seven students, three policemen and three bodyguards. 35 students were injured universities in Kabul and nine officers – told the BBC Abdul Rahman Rahimi. We do not know who they were assassins, no organization claimed responsibility for the attack. Afghan ministry for years, but fighting with the Taliban, who often perpetrate attacks in the country, including in Kabul.
CBS notes that August 8 was kidnapped two professors teaching at the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul – American and Australian. The men were abducted by five men dressed in uniforms of the Afghan armed forces. Professors were driving a car at night near the main road leading university. In Afghanistan, often comes to abductions committed by criminals sometimes. But always there is a risk that the abductees will be sold to the Taliban or militants called. Islamic State in Iraq or Syria.
At the university in the capital of Afghanistan, which was opened ten years ago, studying nearly 1.7 thousand. people – gives the “International Business Times”, citing the official website of the institution. The school is a symbol of cooperation between the US and Afghanistan. Despite the name of the university studying a small number of Americans. The staff are, however, American professors.
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