From the Liveblog of
Wednesday, August 24, 2016
Militants attack American University in Kabul
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleStudents and staff are trapped inside the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul as the complex is rocked by explosions and gunfire from a militant attack.
“I heard explosions and gunfire is going on close by… our class is filled with smoke and dust,” a desperate student tells AFP by telephone. “We are stuck inside and very afraid.”
Many other trapped students were tweeting desperate messages for help. Among them was Associated Press photojournalist and Pulitzer Prize winner Massoud Hossaini.
“Help we are stuck inside AUAF and shooting flollowed by Explo this maybe my last tweets [sic],” writes Hossaini in a tweet that is later deleted.
No militant group has so far claimed responsibility for the attack, which comes as the Taliban step up their summer fighting season against the Western-backed Kabul government.
— AFP
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