DHAKA: At least seven people were killed and 30 others wounded when gunmen attacked the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul early Thursday.

Approximately 12 hours after the attack began Wednesday evening, Kabul police chief Abdul Rahman Rahimi said that about 700 students had been rescued from the university compound, reports CNN.

Details on the victims were not immediately available, but Hedayatullah Stanikzai, an official with the Ministry of Public Health, said a guard employed by the university was among the dead.

Quoting Reuters, CNN report also said that both gunmen involved in the assault were also killed.

There were no immediate claims of responsibility for the attack on the university, which was established in 2006 to offer liberal arts courses modeled on the U.S. system, and has more than 1,000 students currently enrolled.

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