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Updated May 12th, 2020 at 14:18 IST

Gunmen storm hospital in Shiite area of Kabul

Military trucks raced to the site of a gun attack on a Kabul hospital on Tuesday, where at least four people were reported wounded.

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Military trucks raced to the site of a gun attack on a Kabul hospital on Tuesday, where at least four people were reported wounded.

Gunmen had stormed the clinic in the western part of the Afghan capital, setting off a gun battle with the police, officials said.

Eyewitness Noor Agha said that a "man wearing military uniform (...) opened fire on patients' relatives at the gate of the clinic."

No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack but both the Taliban and the Islamic State group are active in Kabul and its surroundings, and both frequently target the military and security forces, as well as civilians.

Black smoke rose into the sky over the hospital in Kabul's Dashti Barchi, a mostly Shiite neighborhood that has been the site of past attacks by Islamic State militants.

Marwa Amini, deputy spokeswoman for the Interior Ministry, said police were trying to bring the situation under control.

It was unclear why the hospital in Dashti Barchi, a 100-bed facility that provides health services to the area, was targeted.

The Islamic State meanwhile claimed it was behind a spate of attacks on Monday in Kabul when four bombs, one placed under a garbage bin and the other three by the roadside, went off in the northern part of the city, wounding four civilians, including a child.

 

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Published May 12th, 2020 at 14:18 IST

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