Thirteen people, including two babies, were killed on Tuesday when gunmen stormed a maternity hospital in the Afghan capital Kabul, an interior ministry spokesman said.
Three gunmen held siege the Barchi National Hospital in Kabul for hours after the early-morning attack before security forces killed them in a clearance operation, the interior ministry said.
The hospital is located in the west of the city, home to the capital’s minority Shiite Hazara community — a frequent target of hardline Sunni militants from the Islamic State group. “The hospital was full of patients and doctors, there was total panic inside,” he said, asking not to be named. Tuesday’s attack was the latest hitting the country’s already stretched health sector, with facilities and medical personnel frequently caught in the crossfire during decades of war in the country.
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