Gunmen killed 13 people, including two newly born children, in an attack on Tuesday on a hospital in the Afghan capital, Kabul, which is supported by Médecins Sans Frontières and runs a maternity clinic, officials said.
In a separate attack also today, a suicide bomber stormed the funeral of a police chief in the Nangarhar region, in which government officials and several members of parliament were participating, killing at least 24 people and wounding 68 others.
No claim of responsibility for either attack has yet been issued. The Taliban said that it was not involved in either of them.
The movement announced that it had stopped launching attacks in cities, according to an agreement to withdraw American forces.
The terrorist organization ISIS has been active in Nangarhar and has carried out a number of major attacks in Kabul over the past months. On Monday, security forces arrested his regional commander in Kabul.
Government officials said that the Kabul attack began in the morning when three gunmen in police uniforms entered the Dasht-Bergi hospital and began throwing grenades and shooting. The Interior Ministry said 15 people were wounded in the attack. The security forces killed the attackers by afternoon.
At the hospital, which has 100 beds, there is an obstetric clinic run by MSF.
The Ministry of Interior and Health said that among the dead and injured were mothers, nurses and children.
The Ministry of the Interior published a picture of two newborn babies who had died in the hospital. Soldiers transported infants from the hospital complex, some of whom were wrapped in blankets with blood stains. One hundred people, including three foreigners, were rescued, officials said.