On 12 May 2020, three gunmen wearing police uniforms carried out a mass shooting in the maternity ward of Dashte Barchi hospital in Kabul, which is assisted by Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) personnel. The attackers killed 24 people and injured another 16. The deaths included two newborn babies, one midwife, and 16 mothers, who were either pregnant giving birth or were with their newborns. Three of the mothers were shot and killed in the delivery room along with their unborn babies. The gunmen had walked straight past other wards closer to the hospital's entrance, and attacked only the maternity ward. More than 80 women, infants, and staff, including three foreign nationals, were safely evacuated from the hospital, and all of the attackers were killed by the Afghan security forces. No armed group claimed responsibility for the hospital shooting. The U.S. government said that it had assessed that ISIL–KP was responsible for the attack. The Afghan government, however, claimed that the Taliban and the affiliated Haqqani network were behind the attack.