Alwaght- During a huge truck bomb attack and gunfight at a foreign hotel in Kabul on Monday three gunmen were gunned down by police while one police was killed amid the clashes.
Reigniting security concerns in the Afghan capital, the blast knocked out the city’s electricity on early Monday outside the Northgate hotel on the outskirts of the city.
No civilian casualties is reported as the hotel is in fact a heavily guarded compound favored by contractors and is equipped with blast walls, watchtowers and sniffer dogs.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the blast, which it said paved the way for its members to enter the compound.
The terrorists managed to detonate explosives on the premises of the heavily guarded hotel by duping security into believing that they had run out of fuel and need help, TOLO news reported, citing security sources. After the security guards moved to assist the perpetrators, at least two assailants detonated explosive devices.
Eleven foreigners, nine members of the hotel staff, and 26 security guards were in the hotel at the moment of the attack.
80 Afghans killed in ISIS's twin suicide attack in KabulThe incident came just over one week after over 80 people were killed and hundreds more injured as twin blasts targeted a street demonstration in Kabul where thousands of Shiite Hazara demonstrators had gathered from early in the morning in protest against a controversial power line project. The ISIS Takfiri terrorist group claimed responsibility for the attack.
