The deputy interior minister may have been visiting the Doctors Without Borders clinic in western Kabul at the time.
Gunmen have attacked a Doctors Without Borders medical clinic in the western part of Kabul, the Afghan capital, a Ministry of Interior source said on Tuesday.
“A hospital belonging to Doctors Without Borders is under attack,” the source said.
adding that security forces were working to repel the attack and that the deputy health minister may have been visiting the clinic at the time.
An Interior Ministry statement confirmed an attack had taken place at a hospital.
It was not clear who was behind the attack or whether there were any casualties.
Doctors Without Borders, known by its French name Medecins Sans Frontieres, did not respond to request for comment.
