No group has claimed responsibility yet for the attack. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told reporters that the group was “investigating” the incident, according to the AP.
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“Most of the dead were killed by gunshots near the windows of their classrooms”, Sediqqi said. Multiple students, police and guards were killed in the attack. Two attackers were also reportedly killed by the police.
It bills itself as Afghanistan’s only private, not-for-profit, “non-partisan” and co-educational university.
Police searched the university campus early Thursday morning and killed two attackers who stormed the campus with guns and explosives. “Condolences to the bereaved families and prayers with the injured”.
The American University of Afghanistan has about 1,000 students studying various subjects at the bachelor and master’s level.
The university said it was working with authorities to make sure everyone was accounted for.
At least 13 people are dead after an hours-long militant attack on the American University of Afghanistan. He said three were “seriously” wounded, probably from automatic gunfire. The shots broke the windows, and Hossani fell and cut his hands on the glass.
Hundreds of trapped students were rescued during the overnight operation, many of whom tweeted desperate messages for help, with some using classroom furniture to barricade the doors.
Among them was Associated Press photojournalist Massoud Hossaini, who was said to be wounded and later managed to escape with some fellow students.
“As we were running, I saw someone lying on the ground face down”, he told AP.
The interior ministry official said on Wednesday that elite Afghan forces had surrounded the university compound, where shooting lasted for more than an hour after the assault began at around 6.30pm local.
“An Afghan Special Forces Commander tells me: ‘we are moving slowly and carefully”.
Thirteen people, including seven students, died in an attack by gunmen on the American University in the Afghan capital Kabul, police say. Their abductors were men dressed in Afghan military uniforms, officials had said. Two weeks ago, two university staff members, an Australian and an American, were abducted from their vehicle by unknown gunmen, and their whereabouts remain unknown.
U.S. State Department spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau said there were “small numbers” of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation advisers who were assisting their Afghan counterparts.
The U.S. State Department condemned the attack, calling it an attack on the future of Afghanistan.
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Afghan policemen stand at the site of an attack in Kabul, capital of Afghanistan, Aug. 25, 2016.
