An nearly nine hour-long terror attack on the American University of Afghanistan ended Thursday, killing at least 12 people and wounding dozens, a government official said.
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Sporadic gunfire could be heard through the night and, before dawn, police said the operation had concluded. The attack has ended, a senior police officer said Thursday, after several people were killed. “Right now a clearance operation is ongoing by a criminal technique team”. The Afghan Public Health Ministry said no foreigners were reported among the wounded.
More than 200 people, mostly students who had been trapped in university buildings were rescued by special police units.
He and other students barricaded themselves in the classroom.
There were 15 other students with Hossaini when they first heard the explosion on the southern side of the campus.
He and about nine students later managed to escape from the campus through an emergency gate.
Militants stormed the American University in Kabul Wednesday, in an attack that left at least 12 dead.
No group has taken credit for the attack, which came less than three weeks after Australian and American faculty members were kidnapped by men dressed in Afghan National Police uniforms.
The attack is the second such incident to occur at the American University in the past month.
“The attacker used the Visually Impaired Vocational High School to enter into the university”. It opened in 2006 and caters to full-time and part-time students.
Afghan policemen stand guard at the site of an attack at American University of Afghanistan in Kabul, Afghanistan August 24, 2016.
Photographer Massoud Hossaini arrives wounded back in the AP main office in Kabul, after the attack on the campus of the American University in the Afghan capital Kabul on Wednesday.
“These advisers are not taking a combat role, but advising their Afghan counterparts”, said U.S. Army Col. Michael Lawhorn, a spokesman for North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and U.S. forces in Afghanistan.
The U.S. State Department condemned what it called “an attack on the future of Afghanistan”.
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State Department spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau said the U.S. Embassy was working to account for all of its personnel and to locate and assist any U.S. citizens affected by the attack.
