The assault began with a suicide bombing at the front entrance, followed by gunmen swarming into the building.
A military hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, was targeted in an attack Tuesday for the second time in five years, leaving at least 19 people dead and many more injured, according to Agence France-Presse .
"All the attackers are dead," a Taliban media official said."The attack was initiated by a suicide bomber on a motorcycle who blew himself up at the entrance of the hospital. Some attackers entered the hospital compound." Witnesses to the latest attack on the hospital heard what sounded like the gunmen going from room to room and compared the tactic to the 2017 assault.
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