(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) Afghan Taliban fighters on Monday seized control of a 200-bed hospital and government facilities in Kunduz city in the north, a spokesman for the militants said.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said in a post on Twitter that insurgent fighters had seized a hospital in a district in the south of the city.
A police official, who declined to be identified, confirmed that a government-run hospital had fallen into insurgent hands but had no further details, according to (BBC). Zabihullah Mujahid said that Taliban fighters launched a three-pronged fierce offensive on the capital of the northern Afghan province of Kunduz.
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