Suspected militants stormed the Kabul campus of the American University of Afghanistan on Wednesday with some students jumping from second floor windows to escape the gunfire and explosions, witnesses and officials said. Foreign staff and dozens of pupils were trapped in the compound hours after the attack began at about 6:30 p.m. (1400 GMT). Some students were crying, others were screaming.”An Afghan policeman keeps watch at the site of an attack in Kabul, Afghanistan. No one has claimed the university attack. Afghan security forces rush to respond to an attack on the campus of the American University in the Afghan capital Kabul on Wednesday.

Source: Hindustan Times August 24, 2016 16:30 UTC