At least 37 people had been wounded, he said, including seven police officers.
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The Afghan Health Ministry said that a security guard was killed in the attack and that at least 26 people had been wounded.
Police said there were a number of dead and injured. The university website has not yet posted a response to the latest attack on its website.
No group has said it carried out the attack.
Around 750 students were in the university at the time of the attack, Mujahid said.
A police operation was set to begin to search for any attackers on the property, according to Interior Ministry spokesman Siddiq Siddiqui.
Security forces are trying to track down those responsible for another attack on the American University in Afghanistan that killed at least four people.
Ahmad Shaheer, a student, told Reuters by telephone that he was trapped inside the university.
The attack, apparently the first major militant assault on a prominent university in Afghanistan, has cast a pall on the education sector, widely seen as a rare symbol of hope for the country’s burgeoning youth amid rising insecurity.
It underscored how militants are able to stage large-scale attacks – even in the country’s capital – despite efforts by the Afghan authorities to improve security.
Afghan policemen stand guard at the site of an attack at American University of Afghanistan in Kabul, Afghanistan August 24, 2016. Our embassy in Kabul, as well as our North Atlantic Treaty Organisation counterparts of the Resolute Support Mission, are closely monitoring the situation as we are. We understand this situation is ongoing. “A small number of advisers from the Resolute Support Mission is now assisting Afghan forces as they respond”. “These advisors are not taking a combat role, but advising their Afghan counterparts”. All faculty have academic backgrounds from accredited schools in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Australia, the school’s website says. An investigation had traced them to an Afghan company “whose spillover signal affects some areas along the Pak-Afghan border”, it said, without further detail.
“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.
Associated Press photographer Massoud Hossaini was in a classroom with 15 students when he heard an explosion on the southern flank of the campus. Early on, he tweeted that he was stuck on campus and heard gunshots and explosions, noting “this maybe my last tweets”.
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The AP later reported that he was safe and had escaped from the school. About 1,700 full- and part-time students are enrolled with undergraduate classes in business, science, political science and law. The university partners with Stanford University and Georgetown University and has produced 29 Fulbright Scholars, according to the website.
