Explosion, Gunfire Heard Near Military Hospital In Kabul: Report

Afghanistan News: Witness reported the first blast was followed by a second blast heard by journalists.

Afghanistan's capital was hit by two blasts near a military hospital on Tuesday, Taliban officials said, with a witness also reporting gunfire.

"I am inside the hospital. I heard a big explosion coming from the first checkpoint. We were told to go to safe rooms. I also hear guns firing," a doctor at the Sardar Mohammad Daud Khan hospital in Kabul told AFP. 

AFP journalists heard a second blast minutes later. 

A Taliban media spokesman confirmed both explosions.