3 gunmen dressed as doctors stormed Afghanistan's largest military hospital on Wednesday , official said, in an attack claimed by Islamic state group as it makes inroads into the war-gathered country.
More than 70 others were wounded in the assault on the Sardar Daud khan hospital , with explosions and gunfire rattling Kabul's diplomatic district as dense clouds of smoke rose in the sky.
Medical staff hunkered down in the Hospital wards posted desperate messages for help on social media, with television foot age showing some of them trapped on the ledge of a top floor window.
"Attackers are inside the hospital pray for us" a hospital staff wrote on Facebook .
Hospital administrators told AFP three gunmen wearing laboratory costs began spraying bullet after a suicide bomber in foot blew himself at the back door entrance sparking choas into the 400-bed facility.
I saw one of the attackers holding an Ak-47 and dressed as a Doctor shooting at patients and guards in the 3rd floor". Hospital nurse Abdul Qadeer told AFP .
"They shot my friend but I managed to flee... I had to jump over the barbed wire to escape.
At least, two other loud explosion - including what the defence minister called a car Bomb in the hospital parking lot - as Afghan special forces launch ed a clearance operation that lasted around 6hours.
The attacker's were gunned down after special forces landed on the do roof of the hospitalwith the military helicopter.
The attack in the capital's central Wazir Akbar Khan nabourhood had killed 38 and wounded more than 70 people. The Italian Run-emergency said in a statement adding that a seven year old boy was among those seriously I hired
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