Storming the university. Two attackers killed – TVN24
Photo: HEDAYATULLAH AMID / PAP / EPA | Video: Reuters TV The attackers stormed a university in Kabul last action of the security forces
the United States are deeply concerned about the attack, the action against the attackers engaged international coalition – said White House spokesman. On Wednesday evening, armed assailants attacked the American University in Kabul, could hear explosions and intense gunfire. Security forces killed two attackers.
After the attack, the university was surrounded and its grounds became Afghan special forces. According to witnesses from that moment ceased shots and explosions.
In the night from Wednesday to Thursday, police forwarded the two attackers were killed by security forces.
Earlier reports of an unspecified number of attackers and hundreds trapped on campus students. Many managed to escape by jumping over the wall surrounding the school.
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USA worried
the Afghan Ministry of health announced that it has information about one person killed and at least 21 people injured, including six seriously.
a representative of the local hospital said many people tried to escape by jumping from a height, even the second floor, breaking itself at the feet or addressing head injuries.
the representative of the Ministry of health Hedjatullah Stanikzai said the fatality is a security guard employed by the university and that among the wounded it is foreign lecturer.
the deep concern about the attack on the American University in Kabul expressed the United States. As White House spokesman Josh Earnest, Washington is closely following events in the capital of Afghanistan.
Earnest admitted that special forces action against attackers were involved forces led by the US-led coalition in Afghanistan. He emphasized that the role of these forces, however, was limited to ancillary activities and advisory services.
The attack in Kabul also condemned the US State Department, calling it “an attack on the future of Afghanistan.” The US Embassy in Kabul has at the moment to determine the whereabouts of all its employees and other American citizens who are staying in the Afghan capital.
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Hundreds of people trapped on the campus
available online photos could be seen smoke rising over the school. According to witnesses, the attackers have blown up portion of the fence and in this way to get on the site.
Shaheer Ahmad, one of the students at Kabul University, reported Reuters news agency by telephone that he is trapped in his area. – We’re stuck inside our classroom, you can hear a series of machine gun – he said.
Equally dramatic entry posted on Twitter known photographer Massoud Hossaini, who at the time of the attack also lived on campus. “Help, we are trapped in the AUAF (acronym university). The shooting and explosions. This could be my last entry” – he wrote. Fotoreporterowi finally managed to escape from the victim university with a group of several students and is no longer safe.
Another attack
This is not the first time that the Kabul university became the target of terrorists. In early August, two lecturers of the university, an American and an Australian, were kidnapped. American University in Kabul was opened in 2006, studying at the more than 1,700 people.
The head of the government of Afghanistan Abdullah Abdullah wrote in a Wednesday night on Twitter that attacks on schools and universities are war crimes.
Video: Reuters Two western professors kidnapped in Kabul
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