The six-hour siege ended with four attackers dead at the Sardar Mohammed Daud Khan hospital, the biggest and best-equipped facility in the country. One suicide bomber died at the hospital's south gate, and three armed assailants were killed inside the hospital, said Sediq Sediqqi, Afghan Interior Ministry spokesman, said. The facility, known locally as the "400 bed" hospital, is only a few hundred meters from the US embassy and the diplomatic quarter of Kabul. The injured were taken to the Wazir Akbar Khan hospital, Smael Kawosi, media relation officer for the Ministry of Health, said. A Taliban spokesman, Zabiullah Mojahid, denied responsibility for the attack in a tweet, saying: "Today's attack on hospital in Kabul has nothing to do with the Mujahidin of Islamic Emirate," using the group's formal name.

Source: CNN March 08, 2017 06:26 UTC