2 An explosion had earlier been reported at the Sardar Mohammad Daud Khan hospital. Gunmen, including at least one dressed as a doctor, attacked a military hospital close to the U.S. embassy in the Afghan capital Kabul on Wednesday and were engaging security forces inside the building, officials and witnesses said. The attack on the hospital, across the road from the heavily fortified U.S. embassy, underlines warnings by government officials that high profile attacks in Kabul are likely to escalate this year as the Taliban step up their insurgency. He also heard firing from several other points of the hospital, which treats military casualties from around Afghanistan. The area around the hospital, near a busy traffic intersection, was blocked off by security forces.

Source: India Today March 08, 2017 05:35 UTC