DEVELOPING: At least one student died and 14 other people were hurt Wednesday after a “complex attack” involving bombs and gunfire at American University of Afghanistan in Kabul, police and the head of the city’s hospitals reported.
Reporters in the area said teachers and hundreds of students took cover in classrooms and safe rooms as police and special forces surrounded the campus on the western outskirts of Afghanistan’s capital city. A car bomb had exploded outside a school for the blind next door before at least one attacker fired at the university campus from that school building, a police officer at the scene told The New York Times.
Update:
Via ABC:
An attack on The American University of Afghanistan in Kabul has ended, according to The Associated Press.
At least seven were killed and more than 30 were injured in the attack, The AP reported. The victims have not been publicly identified.
About 700 students were rescued, according to The AP.