KABUL, AFGHANISTAN — A powerful explosion was heard near the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul on Wednesday evening, followed by sounds of heavy gunfire, sending panicked students at evening classes scrambling for safety on the highly-guarded campus in the Afghan capital. As reports of the explosion circulated immediately on social media, students tweeted that they were hearing gunfire very close and feared that attackers had entered the campus. A wounded person is treated in an ambulance after an attack on the campus of the American University in the Afghan capital Kabul on Wednesday. Hossaini and the nine students took refuge in a residential house near the campus. Ambulances arrived at the campus in western Kabul, but it was not immediately clear how many people had been wounded.

Source: thestar August 24, 2016 16:14 UTC