Press TV
August 8, 2016

Alarms were set off in the Afghan capital of Kabul on Monday following a gunfire which aimed to celebrate a cricket match.

Officials said Monday that the sound of gunfire appeared to be in celebration of a cricket match in Kabul, saying embassies in the diplomatic quarter of the city sounded their sirens to warn employees to take shelter in safe rooms and bunkers.

The alarms triggered concerns in Kabul as a series of deadly attacks by militants have rocked the city over the past days.

Earlier on Sunday, two foreign professors were abducted at gunpoint from outside the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul.

Also on Friday, five Afghan police officers were killed in an explosion that hit the Khak Jabar district in the southeastern part of Kabul province.

Afghanistan remains gripped by insecurity 15 years after a massive US-led military invasion of the country as part of Washington’s so-called war on terror.

The war removed the Taliban from power, but terror and instability is still rampant in the Asian nation despite the presence of thousands of foreign troops.

The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan said in a report late last month that at least 3,726 civilians were killed or wounded between January and June of the current year.

According to the UN mission, the anti-government elements remain responsible for 60 percent of the civilian casualties.