American University attack kills 12

Following the terror attack that engulf the American University in the city of Kabul, no fewer than 12 students have been killed with almost 36 persons recorded to have suffered serious injuries. The Gunmen who attacked the American University of Afghanistan Thursday, amid tight security and campus guards, took to the University premises as they fired shots sporadically aiming at students in their respective classrooms. According to high witness account, the attackers who threw series of grenades inside the classrooms, left students pushing themselves as some hurriedly looked for safe heavens routing a means of escape.

"I finished my class and was about to leave when i heard a few gunshots and a huge explosions, followed by more gunshots" narrated Ahmad Muktar who explained his ordeal to Reuters. 'I ran towards the emergency exit with other students, climbed the wall and jumped out" he added.

"Many students jumped from the second floor, some broke their legs and some hurts their heads why trying to escape" -Abdullah Fahimi one student who injured his ankle while trying to make a jump from the second floor.

According to officials, approximately 12 hours after which the attacks begins early Wednesday, no fewer than 700 students have been rescued out from the University due to the magnitude of the attacks that almost crumbled the entire University which was founded in 2006 in Afghanistan to offer liberal arts courses modeled on the US system.

Though it is still unclear the possible identities of all those who lost their lives in the operational attacks, but according to the State Department, no American students was among the victims of all those who lost their lives. One official with the ministry of public health hinted that one of the guard employed by the University was among those killed.

" I went to the window to see what was going on, and i saw a person in a normal cloths outside. He shot at me and shatter the glass" narrated Massoud Hossani, an Associated press photographer, who was with 15
others of his classmates as at the time of the attack. Hossaini later managed to escape alongside nine others through an emergency exit as they hurriedly left the campus premises . " As we were running i saw someone laying on the ground face down, they look like they have been shot at the back" he added.

A car bomb had exploded outside a school for the blind next door before at least one attacker fired at the university campus from that school building, a police officer at the scene told The New York Times.

This is the second time in less than three weeks that the American University has been targeted by militants terror group. Though, no group have claimed responsibility but all finger points to the Taliban.   General Abdul Rahman Rahimi, Kabul's police chief, said early Thursday that 12 people were killed. Of the 12 killed, he said 7 were students, 3 were police officers and 2 were American University of Afghanistan guards.

Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqqi said the attackers were armed with grenades and automatic weapons. The siege of the university lasted almost nine hours, before police killed the two assailants around 3.30 am, he said."Most of the dead were killed by gun shots near the windows of their classrooms," Sediqqi said.