12 slain in terror strike on Kabul’s US univ.

Two gunmen attacked the American University in the Afghan capital of Kabul on Wednesday, killing 12 people and wounding more than 30.

The victims included seven students, three police officers and two security guards.

The 10-hour siege ended early Thursday when the terrorists themselves were shot dead.

AP photographer Massoud Hossaini said he was in a classroom with 15 students when he heard an explosion.

“I went to the window to see what was going on, and I saw a person in normal clothes outside. He shot at me and shattered the glass,” Hossaini said.

The students then barricaded themselves inside the classroom, pushing chairs and desks against the door, and staying on the floor.

Hossaini said at least two grenades were thrown into the room, wounding several classmates.

He and about nine students later managed to escape from the campus through an emergency gate.

Hossaini and the others took refuge in a house near the campus, and were later evacuated by Afghan security forces.

The Ministry of Public Health, said that two guards employed by the university had been killed and that the wounded included a teacher.

The attack took place two weeks after two university staffers, an American and an Australian, were kidnapped. Their whereabouts are still unknown.