Taliban claims deadly Kabul hotel siege

Afghan Taliban has claimed responsibility for an attack on Kabul’s Intercontinental Lodge that left no longer no longer as much as 5 civilians killed and 6 wounded.

Gunmen dressed in navy uniform stormed the heavily-guarded hotel in the Bagh-e Bala bother on Saturday evening, retaining a siege that continued into Sunday.

Al Jazeera’s Jennifer Glasse, reporting from Kabul, said the attack became as soon as declared over after Sixteen hours of combating.

All and sundry is aware of the combating went room-to-room, we all know that many company spent monstrous hours in a single day hiding in their rooms as the gunmen moved by the hotel.

 

« Officers are inner [the hotel] now to conduct their investigations and to evaluate whether or not they’ll uncover from now on casualties, » she said.

« All and sundry is aware of the combating went room-to-room, we all know that many company spent monstrous hours in a single day hiding in their rooms as the gunmen moved by the hotel. »

The Taliban crew, which controls larger than a 3rd of the country, said there will be no mute resolution except worldwide troops recede Afghanistan.

« Our 5 opponents, Bilal, Ayubi, Khalil, Bashar and Abid entered the building and conducted the operation that resulted in the death of 10 foreigners and Afghan government officers, » Taliban spokesperson, Zabihullah Mujahid, told Al Jazeera.

The Taliban claim, on the assorted hand, became as soon as at variance with the federal government, which said no longer no longer as much as four attackers thinking about the brutal attack had been killed.

« We recovered the bodies of no longer no longer as much as four attackers, » said Within Ministry spokesman Najib Danish.

A glimpse, Abdulhaq Karimi, told Al Jazeera that plenty of ineffective bodies of safety guards had been shut to the gate of the hotel. Many had been seen working out of the premises as the opponents barged in.

« The opponents can arrange to attack wherever they admire. Nowhere is apt, » Karimi said.

The inner ministry said a non-public firm assumed responsibility for the safety of the hotel around three weeks ago, and had been investigating how the attackers managed to enter the building that is frequented by government officers and foreigners.

Gunmen stormed a luxury hotel in Kabul killing no longer no longer as much as six other folks, including a foreigner, in a twelve-hour fight with safety forces [Shah Marai/AFP]

The attack on the Intercontinental Lodge became as soon as exact surely one of plenty of assaults on Sunday.

In a village in the northern province of Balkh, Taliban opponents raided homes in the heart of the evening, pulling law enforcement officers from their homes and shooting them ineffective.

At the least 18 officers had been killed, deputy police chief Abdul Raziq Qaderi told local journalists.

In western Herat province, no longer no longer as much as eight civilians had been killed when a automobile hit a Taliban-planted roadside mine, officers said.

Afghan forces get struggled to strive in opposition to the Taliban for the reason that US and NATO formally concluded their strive in opposition to mission on the conclude of 2014.

The incident came days after the US embassy in Kabul issued a warning that armed groups will be planning assaults in opposition to hotels in the metropolis.

This became as soon as the second time that the hotel came under attack.

In 2011, an in a single day assault by Taliban opponents and suicide bombers on the hotel ended with safety forces killing the attackers and the deaths of no longer no longer as much as 10 civilians.