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Kabul, Nov 2 (EFE/EPA).- At least six people were injured on Monday as a group of militants attacked the University of Kabul, prompting the deployment of extra security forces and forcing hundreds of students to flee from the campus in the Afghan capital, officials said.Public health ministry spokesperson Akmal Samsor told EFE the injured students and lecturers had been evacuated to a hospital.Tariq Arian, an interior ministry spokesperson, said in a statement that “several enemies of Afghanistan” entered the Kabul university campus.“Special forces have arrived,” he said, adding that police had saved several of the trapped students and efforts were underway to rescue all the people holed up inside the besieged campus.SHOT LIST: THE UNIVERITY OF KABUL AFTER THE ATTACK.
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