15 die in attack on Kabul varsity

KABUL: About 15 people were killed and 45 injured in a terrorist attack on a private American-run university in Kabul on Wednesday night.

Seven students were among those killed while 36 college staff and students were wounded in the suicide car bombing and ensuing gunfight.

The listing of major attacks in Kabul since January includes: on August 1, a truck bombing followed by a shooting rocked North Gate, a foreign companies’ compound, killing one policeman, three militants and injuring three officers. The massive blast destroyed several buildings.

On July 29, a senior employee of Afghan parliament was killed, two people were injured and three cars destroyed in a bomb attack near a crowded overpass in western Kabul. On July 23, 84 persons mainly from Hazara ethnic minority were killed and 305 injured when three suicide bombers hit a street protest in Dehmazang neighbourhood.

The IS militant group claimed responsibility. On June 30, twin Taliban suicide bombers hit a five-bus convoy carrying police graduates in western Kabul. The attack killed 32 police and one civilian and injured 79 others. – Xinhua