International News Articles: They jumped out of windows to save himself. 12 killed in attack on university

Wednesday, August 24, 2016

They jumped out of windows to save himself. 12 killed in attack on university – TVN24

Photo: PAP / EPA | Video: Reuters TV The attackers stormed the university in Kabul

Twelve people, including seven students, three policemen and two security personnel were killed as a result of the attack gunmen at American University in Kabul – said on Thursday the Afghan police. 44 people were injured, including 35 students.

After the attack, the university was surrounded and its grounds became an elite unit of the Afghan security forces. According to witnesses from that moment ceased shots and explosions. Before dawn on Thursday, the action ended.

– At least two attackers were killed. Currently, the search area by a team of forensic technicians – said the representative of the police.

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USA worried

on Thursday, Afghan police reported that the attack killed 12 people, including seven students, three policemen and two security personnel.

Ok. 500 students escaped. A representative of the local hospital said that many people had tried to escape by jumping from a height, even the second floor, breaking his leg while referring or head injuries.

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

Author: mm js / kk, rzw / Source: Reuters, tvn24.pl, PAP