A shooting at a CIA compound inside the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan left one United States citizen dead and another wounded. American officials say the gunman was an Afghan employee of the embassy. He opened fire Sunday evening with no apparent target. Security officers killed him.
Embassy spokesman Gavin Sundwall said the motive behind the attack is “still under investigation.” It is unclear if the gunman was acting for personal reasons or for the Taliban. According to Sundwall, the Afghan was not authorized to carry a gun and investigators do not know how he got the weapon past security.
The embassy has not identified the victims of the attack. The wounded person was taken to a military hospital for treatment of “non life-threatening injuries.”
Sunday’s shooting comes less than two weeks after a group of Taliban militants launched an attack on the embassy, NATO headquarters and Afghan police compounds in Kabul. The siege lasted over 20 hours and left 14 people dead. None of the staff at the embassy or NATO headquarters were killed or wounded.
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