Gunmen Disguised As Doctors Mount Hours-Long Assault On Kabul Hospital

Gunmen dressed as medical staff stormed a military hospital in Kabul on Wednesday morning, killing at least 30 people and injuring dozens more in a raid that lasted hours. In a statement published on the Islamic State-affiliated Aamaq news agency, the militant group claimed responsibility for the assault in the Afghan capital.

The attack on Sardar Mohammad Daud Khan hospital ended midafternoon local time, after several hours of floor-by-floor clashes with Afghan security forces left all four attackers dead, according to Gen. Dawlat Waziri, an Afghan defense ministry spokesman.

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said the assault "trampled all human values," the BBC reports, noting that Ghani added: "In all religions, a hospital is regarded as an immune site and attacking it is attacking the whole of Afghanistan."

Citing the country's military officials, The Washington Post reports the attack opened midmorning with the detonation of a suicide bomb at the 400-bed hospital's front gates. Witnesses describe gunmen wearing white doctors' coats, which hid the assault rifles and grenades they broke out to target the staff and patients. - Read More, NPR

Gunmen Disguised As Doctors Mount Hours-Long Assault On Kabul Hospital