Six dead in suicide blast at Kabul military hospital

KABUL: Six medical students were killed and 23 others wounded in a Taliban suicide attack at Afghanistan's main military hospital in Kabul on Saturday, officials said.

The blast took place in a tent used as a dining room by students at the heavily-secured city centre hospital, one of the biggest and best-equipped in Afghanistan.

The hospital is not used by NATO forces, although it is thought that foreign medics are often stationed there to train their Afghan counterparts.

"There was a suicide attack at a tent used as a dining facility by medical students inside the hospital," said defence ministry spokesman General Mohammad Zahir Azimi. (AFP)