Afghan ministry: 1 policeman killed in Kabul hotel attack, A accumulation of militants, including a suicide barter bomber, targeted a Kabul guesthouse for adopted contractors aboriginal on Monday, killing one policeman and acid four, Afghan authorities said. The Taliban claimed albatross for the attack.
The Interior Ministry said "terrorists" acclimated a barter abounding of explosives to aperture the ambit bank of the Northgate Auberge about 1:30 a.m. Three gunmen again entered the bounds and started shooting.
The ministry's agent agent Najib Danish said the barter disciplinarian was asleep if he detonated the explosives. The bang in the eastern allotment of the Afghan basic befuddled the city-limits and was followed by boundless ability outages. A Taliban account said they had beatific heavily armed agents as allotment of the attack.
Abdul Rahman Rahimi, the Kabul arch of police, said all the attackers who were on bottom had been asleep and that none of the hotel's association were harmed. A man anecdotic himself as Steve Jones answered the buzz at the auberge and said all the guests were safe. "We accept 100 percent accountability," he said.
However, as aurora bankrupt and Afghan policemen deployed at the website kept the anchorage arch to the auberge closed off, questions remained as to how the insurgents were able to accompany a barter loaded with explosives into the Afghan capital.
Foreign guesthouses accept connected been a Taliban target. The Northgate Auberge was attacked in July, 2013, in a agnate manner, with a barter bomb breaching the aboideau and gunmen affronted the compound. Reports at the time said that four aegis guards were asleep afore the attackers were attempt dead.
The Northgate, which is east of Kabul's all-embracing airport and abreast the Bagram Air Base, is archetypal of abounding pre-fabricated compounds that action adaptation to foreigners alive in the Afghan capital. According to its website, it offers the aforementioned casework as a lot of hotels, forth with top security, adenoids dogs, airport transfers and "background checks, if necessary."
The ministry's account on the auberge advance said that badge commandos accustomed and amidst the facility, but had to be accurate because ammunition tankers were stored in the area. They waited until aurora afore aggravating to acquisition the gunmen. "The operation accomplished at 7:30 am if the terrorists were killed," the account said.
Monday's advance followed a massive suicide bombing that addled a peaceful assemblage by Afghanistan's boyhood indigenous Hazara association on July 23 that asleep added than 80 humans and blood-soaked hundreds. The Hazaras were ambulatory to alarm for a ability activity to be rerouted through their bankrupt arena in the axial highlands if the suicide adviser hit.
That advance was claimed by the Islamic State group, which emerged endure year in Afghanistan as an associate of the active accumulation angry in Iraq and Syria. It was the IS Afghan branch's aboriginal advance in Kabul and the deadliest advance in the Afghan basic back the U.S.-led aggression to adios the Taliban administration in 2001.
The Taliban account on Monday's advance acclaimed that guesthouses active by foreigners, abnormally "Americans invaders," are common targets.
In May 2015, the Taliban addled the Park Palace guesthouse in axial Kabul, killing 14 people, including nine foreigners. In December 2014, four people, including three associates of a South African family, were asleep in a Taliban advance on the admixture of a U.S.-based educational charity.
Truck bombs abide a above affair for Afghan authorities because of the abeyant for huge casualties, abnormally in the built-up suburbs of the capital. Endure August, a huge access in the Shah Shaheed breadth was attributed to a barter bomb accepting possibly detonated prematurely. The afterlife assessment was clearly put at about 15, with hundreds blood-soaked and a massive atrium larboard in the average of the residential area.
Elsewhere in the country, angry angry connected Monday in the southern arena of Helmand, and arctic in Kunduz, area the bigoted basic of Kunduz city-limits was beat and bedeviled by the insurgents endure year.
The arch of Helmand's bigoted board Kareem Atal said angry amid government aegis armament and Taliban militants in the Nad Ali commune asleep 19 policemen and soldiers in the accomplished 24 hours. About 17 policemen were asleep in battles there on Friday and Saturday.
Much of the commune has been taken by the insurgents, Atal said, with "just the commune governor's office, and the badge and army compounds left."
He said that in Kanasheen commune — which was beat by Taliban on Friday and has been the arena of angry angry in the canicule back — two policemen were asleep in battles.
Fighting that has raged for the accomplished anniversary in the Archi and Qalay-i-Zal districts of Kunduz arena is continuing, the governor's agent Mahmood Danish said.
In Logar province, abreast Kabul, on Sunday, 5 civilians were asleep if their car hit a roadside bomb in the Hazra district, the governor's agent Salim Saleh said.
The Interior Ministry said "terrorists" acclimated a barter abounding of explosives to aperture the ambit bank of the Northgate Auberge about 1:30 a.m. Three gunmen again entered the bounds and started shooting.
The ministry's agent agent Najib Danish said the barter disciplinarian was asleep if he detonated the explosives. The bang in the eastern allotment of the Afghan basic befuddled the city-limits and was followed by boundless ability outages. A Taliban account said they had beatific heavily armed agents as allotment of the attack.
Abdul Rahman Rahimi, the Kabul arch of police, said all the attackers who were on bottom had been asleep and that none of the hotel's association were harmed. A man anecdotic himself as Steve Jones answered the buzz at the auberge and said all the guests were safe. "We accept 100 percent accountability," he said.
However, as aurora bankrupt and Afghan policemen deployed at the website kept the anchorage arch to the auberge closed off, questions remained as to how the insurgents were able to accompany a barter loaded with explosives into the Afghan capital.
Foreign guesthouses accept connected been a Taliban target. The Northgate Auberge was attacked in July, 2013, in a agnate manner, with a barter bomb breaching the aboideau and gunmen affronted the compound. Reports at the time said that four aegis guards were asleep afore the attackers were attempt dead.
The Northgate, which is east of Kabul's all-embracing airport and abreast the Bagram Air Base, is archetypal of abounding pre-fabricated compounds that action adaptation to foreigners alive in the Afghan capital. According to its website, it offers the aforementioned casework as a lot of hotels, forth with top security, adenoids dogs, airport transfers and "background checks, if necessary."
The ministry's account on the auberge advance said that badge commandos accustomed and amidst the facility, but had to be accurate because ammunition tankers were stored in the area. They waited until aurora afore aggravating to acquisition the gunmen. "The operation accomplished at 7:30 am if the terrorists were killed," the account said.
Monday's advance followed a massive suicide bombing that addled a peaceful assemblage by Afghanistan's boyhood indigenous Hazara association on July 23 that asleep added than 80 humans and blood-soaked hundreds. The Hazaras were ambulatory to alarm for a ability activity to be rerouted through their bankrupt arena in the axial highlands if the suicide adviser hit.
That advance was claimed by the Islamic State group, which emerged endure year in Afghanistan as an associate of the active accumulation angry in Iraq and Syria. It was the IS Afghan branch's aboriginal advance in Kabul and the deadliest advance in the Afghan basic back the U.S.-led aggression to adios the Taliban administration in 2001.
The Taliban account on Monday's advance acclaimed that guesthouses active by foreigners, abnormally "Americans invaders," are common targets.
In May 2015, the Taliban addled the Park Palace guesthouse in axial Kabul, killing 14 people, including nine foreigners. In December 2014, four people, including three associates of a South African family, were asleep in a Taliban advance on the admixture of a U.S.-based educational charity.
Truck bombs abide a above affair for Afghan authorities because of the abeyant for huge casualties, abnormally in the built-up suburbs of the capital. Endure August, a huge access in the Shah Shaheed breadth was attributed to a barter bomb accepting possibly detonated prematurely. The afterlife assessment was clearly put at about 15, with hundreds blood-soaked and a massive atrium larboard in the average of the residential area.
Elsewhere in the country, angry angry connected Monday in the southern arena of Helmand, and arctic in Kunduz, area the bigoted basic of Kunduz city-limits was beat and bedeviled by the insurgents endure year.
The arch of Helmand's bigoted board Kareem Atal said angry amid government aegis armament and Taliban militants in the Nad Ali commune asleep 19 policemen and soldiers in the accomplished 24 hours. About 17 policemen were asleep in battles there on Friday and Saturday.
Much of the commune has been taken by the insurgents, Atal said, with "just the commune governor's office, and the badge and army compounds left."
He said that in Kanasheen commune — which was beat by Taliban on Friday and has been the arena of angry angry in the canicule back — two policemen were asleep in battles.
Fighting that has raged for the accomplished anniversary in the Archi and Qalay-i-Zal districts of Kunduz arena is continuing, the governor's agent Mahmood Danish said.
In Logar province, abreast Kabul, on Sunday, 5 civilians were asleep if their car hit a roadside bomb in the Hazra district, the governor's agent Salim Saleh said.
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