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Afghan police guard opens fire in Kabul hospital, kills 3 foreigners and wounds at least 1

Afghan civilians walk out from a gate of Cure International Hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, April 24, 2014. The U.S. embassy in Afghanistan says three American doctors have been killed at by an Afghan security guard who opened fire at a hospital in Kabul. The shooting at Cure International Hospital in western Kabul was the latest attack on foreign civilians in the Afghan capital this year. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)

KABUL - Police in Afghanistan say a security guard has opened fire in a Kabul hospital, killing three foreigners and wounding one other person.

District Police Chief Hafiz Khan says the guard suddenly started shooting on Thursday morning in Cure Hospital in the west of the capital.

He says one of the three foreigners killed was a doctor. Their nationalities were not immediately known.

Khan says the attacker was a member of the Afghan Police Protection Force assigned to guard the hospital.

The shooting is the latest attack on foreign civilians in Afghanistan after the bombing of a popular restaurant in January and an attack on an upscale hotel in March. It also follows the shooting of two Associated Press staff by a police officer in the country's east this month.

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