At least 14 people, including two newborns and nurses, were killed Tuesday when militants stormed a hospital in the Afghan capital of Kabul where the international humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders runs a maternity clinic, according to reports.

In two separate attacks, a suicide bomber in Nangarhar province — an ISIS hotbed — targeted the funeral of a militia commander, killing 24 people and wounding 68, and a bomb at a market killed a child and wounded 10 people in eastern Khost province, officials said.

In Kabul, the attack began when at least three gunmen clad in police uniforms entered the 100-bed government-run Dasht-e-Barchi hospital, tossing grenades and shooting, Reuters reported, citing government officials.

Fifteen people were wounded in the attack, according to the Ministry of Interior. Security forces had killed the assailants by the afternoon.

The hospital hosted a maternity clinic run by Doctors Without Borders, also known by its French name Médecins Sans Frontières, which confirmed in a tweet that the hospital had been attacked and staff and patients were being evacuated.

Officials said that mothers, nurses and children were among the dead and wounded.

Heart-wrenching images from the Ministry of Interior showed two young children lying dead inside the hospital.

Soldiers carried infants out of the compound, some wrapped in blood-stained blankets. About 100 people were rescued from the carnage, including three foreign nationals, officials said.

The neighborhood is home to many members of the country’s Hazara community, a mostly Shia Muslim minority that has been attacked by Sunni militants from ISIS jihadis in the past, Reuters reported.

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