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Three Americans Killed In Kabul Hospital Attack

Apr 24, 2014, 14:46 IST

Thomson ReutersAfghan policemen secure the area outside Cure Hospital after three foreigners were killed in Kabul

KABUL (Reuters) - Three Americans were killed on Thursday when a security guard opened fire at an international hospital in the Afghan capital Kabul, the U.S. embassy said, in the latest of a series of attacks against foreign civilians in the country.

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"We can confirm three Americans were killed," said an embassy official, without providing further details. An interior ministry official said at least one other person, a female nurse, was wounded.

(Reporting by Jeremy Laurence and Hamid Shalizi; Editing by Kim Coghill)

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