Last few months have been really painful for Afghanistan as it faced many terrorist attacks and hundreds of people lost their lives in these attacks. In another Gun and Bomb attack in American University in Kabul , twelve people including seven students were killed.
Kabul police chief Abdul Rahman Rahimi said seven students, three policemen and two security guards were killed during the attack, the second incident involving the university this month. Other than 12 killings in the attack, hundreds of students fleeing in panic before the assault ended when two gunmen were shot dead.
How militants attacked the University?
The attack started at around 6:30 p.m. local time (1400 GMT) on August 24 with a large explosion that officials said was a car bomb followed by gunfire. Then the suspected militants battled into the complex where foreign staff and pupils were working. However, taking actions on time, Elite Afghan forces surrounded the walled compound and eventually worked their way inside.
“The fight is over and at least two attackers are killed,” a police official at the scene told Reuters. “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.
Fraidoon Obaidi, chief of the Kabul police Criminal Investigation Department, told Reuters that police had evacuated between 700 and 750 students from the university, which is popular with Afghanistan’s elite. Islamist militant groups, mainly the Afghan Taliban and a local offshoot of Islamic State, have claimed a string of recent bomb attacks aimed at destabilising Afghanistan and toppling the Western-backed government of President Ashraf Ghani. However, no one has taken responsibility for the university raid.
