KABUL: At least three militants armed with rockets and automatic weapons have launched a suicide attack on a hotel at a popular Kabul beauty spot with reports Friday that insurgents were holding numerous hostages.At least four people have been killed in a Taliban assault on a hotel at a Kabul beauty spot, the Afghan interior ministry said on Friday.
Three hotel guards and at least one policeman were killed in the attack at Qargha lake on the outskirts of the city, ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqqi told AFP.
Afghan security forces and coalition troops are responding to the assault at the site at Qargha Lake on the outskirts of the Afghan capital, a spokesman for Nato’s International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) told AFP.
The target appeared to be Afghan police and civilians, Isaf said, adding there were reports of police and civilian casualties.
The assault, claimed by the Taliban, came just hours after President Hamid Karzai warned that attacks against local police and soldiers were increasing as they prepare to take over security when Nato combat troops leave in 2014.
Mohammad Zahir, the head of Kabul police criminal investigation department, said the attack began around 11:30 pm on Thursday, when suicide attackers armed with rockets and Kalashnikov rifles stormed a gathering at the Spozhmai Hotel.
At least one of the attackers detonated his explosive suicide vest, Zahir said.
Kabul deputy police chief Daoud Amin said that according to hotel guards, there were three attackers inside the hotel, as well as numerous civilians.
Witnesses fleeing the scene said the attackers were holding hostages.
Security forces began an operation to end the assault around 5:30 am, police said, and an AFP photographer at the scene heard automatic gunfire and saw two Nato helicopters overhead.
Zabihullah Mujahid, a spokesman for the Taliban, said in a text message that fighters had launched strikes on two hotels used by foreigners. However, police and security officials have only confirmed one hotel was attacked.
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