A group of four gunmen disguised in military uniform attacked a hospital in Afghanistan’s Kabul city on Tuesday, killing at least 14 peopl...
A group of four gunmen disguised in military uniform attacked a hospital in Afghanistan’s Kabul city on Tuesday, killing at least 14 people, including two newborn babies, Tolo News reported, citing the nation’s interior ministry. The attackers were killed after a five-hour encounter with security forces, the ministry said.
The attack started with explosions and gunfire close to a maternity hospital in the Dasht-e-Barchi locality in western Kabul. Afghanistan’s security forces evacuated over 40 people from the clinic in Kabul, said interior ministry spokesperson Tariq Arian. The medical facility is run by the international humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders, according to AFP.
An unidentified paediatrician who fled the hospital said he heard a loud explosion at the entrance of the building in Dasht-e-Barchi, a predominantly Shia neighbourhood that has seen attacks from terrorist group ISIL in the past. “The hospital was full of patients and doctors, there was total panic inside,” the doctor told AFP.
Images from the scene showed soldiers carrying one newborn baby to safety, swaddled in a blood-stained blanket. Another image showed a woman, who had been killed, still holding onto her baby. A nurse later confirmed to Reuters that the infant had survived and had been moved to an intensive care unit at another hospital.
Arian said three foreign...
