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		</div><p>An attack on a military hospital in Afghanistan has killed more than 30 people, the country&#8217;s Defence Ministry has said.</p>
<p>An affiliate of the so-called &#8216; Islamic State&#8217; group claimed responsibility for today&#8217;s attack on the hospital in Kabul&#8217;s heavily guarded diplomatic quarter, which set off clashes that lasted for several hours.</p>
<p>Gen Dawlat Waziri, a Defence Ministry spokesman, says there were &#8220;more than 30 killed and more than 50 wounded&#8221; in the attack.</p>
<p>He says security forces have taken full control of the facility and that the fighting is over.</p>
<p>The ministry said the attackers were dressed like health workers.</p>
<p>Gen Waziri said a suicide bomber had detonated his payload and another attacker was shot dead, and that one member of the security forces was killed and three wounded.<br />
Afghan helicopters circled over the area, which was surrounded by security forces.</p>
<p>Abdul Qadir, a hospital worker who witnessed the attack, said an attacker in a white coat shot at him and his colleagues.</p>
<p>Ghulam Azrat, another survivor, said he escaped through a fourth floor window after attackers killed two of his friends.</p>
<p>IS claimed the attack in a statement carried by its Aamaq news agency.</p>
<p>An affiliate of the extremist group has carried out a number of attacks in Afghanistan in recent years, and has clashed with the more powerful and well-established Taliban, who carried out a complex attack in Kabul last week.</p>
<p>Afghan security forces have struggled to combat both groups since the US and Nato formally concluded their combat mission at the end of 2014, switching to an advisory and counter-terrorism role.</p>
<p>Afghan President Ashraf Ghani condemned the attack during an address in honour of International Women&#8217;s Day, calling it &#8220;an attack on all Afghan people and all Afghan women&#8221;.</p>
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