A blast rocked Afghanistan’s Kabul on Monday afternoon. While local residents of the Shahr-e Naw area said they heard ‘sporadic gunfire’, local media personnel said that the attack was carried out where the ‘Chinese’ had been living.
News agency AFP reported that the building was frequently visited by Chinese businessmen in the Afghan capital. Meanwhile, a former TOLO News correspondent shared visuals of the attack that jolted the Taliban-ruled country.
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Sources said that armed attackers stormed Hotel Star-e-Naw in the posh and relatively busy locality of Kabul.
Confirming the update, a local media correspondent shared visuals of the hotel under attack. He shared, “A Chinese Hotel under attack in the Sharenow area in Kabul city. A few attackers entered the inside the hotel firing is ongoing.
The residents told TOLO News that they heard a ‘blast and sporadic gunfire’. However, Afghanistan security officials have not commented on the development.
Following reports on the attack, a spokesperson for the Islamic Emirates, Zabihullah Mujahid, said, “The attack on a hotel in the Shahr-e-Naw district of Kabul city ended with the killing of three attackers. All hotel guests were saved, and no foreigners were killed. Two foreign guests were injured as a result of their fall when they jumped from the hotel building for their lives.”
Meanwhile, Emergency Hospital confirmed three dead bodies arrived with 18 others wounded.
It may be noted that the blast came a day after Afghanistan’s foreign affairs ministry spokesperson shared that the Chinese ambassador to Kabul, Wang Yu, met the Taliban’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sher Mohammad Abbas Stankzai.
“Today, the Chinese Ambassador to Kabul Mr Wang Yu called on Deputy Foreign Minister Sher Mohammad Abbas Stankzai to discuss issues of mutual interest. The Chinese ambassador expressed his satisfaction over the overall security in Afghanistan, calling on the Islamic Emirate,” the spokesperson shared.
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