{"id":5344,"date":"2018-01-21T15:18:53","date_gmt":"2018-01-21T15:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/5344-fatalities-confirmed-as-kabul-hotel-siege-ends\/"},"modified":"2018-01-21T15:18:53","modified_gmt":"2018-01-21T15:18:53","slug":"fatalities-confirmed-as-kabul-hotel-siege-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/5344-fatalities-confirmed-as-kabul-hotel-siege-ends\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatalities confirmed as Kabul hotel siege &#8216;ends&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A militant attack on a luxury hotel in the Afghan capital of Kabul has ended, leaving six civilians dead, among them a foreigner, according to Afghan officials.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<h4>\u00a0<\/h4>\n<h4>A militant attack on a luxury hotel in the Afghan capital of Kabul has ended, leaving six civilians dead, among them a foreigner, according to Afghan officials.<\/h4>\n<h4>At least four assailants raided the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul at about 21:00 local time (16:30 GMT) on Saturday, detonating explosives, taking people hostage, and shooting at individuals as some terrified guests and employees used bedsheets to climb down balconies to escape.<\/h4>\n<h4>Images broadcast by local television showed thick smoke billowing from the building.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u201cThe attack is over,\u201d Najib Danish, a spokesman for the Afghan Interior Ministry, said on Sunday. He said security forces had killed four attackers.<\/h4>\n<h4>Interior Ministry deputy spokesman Nasrat Rahimi told AFP that five Afghans and one foreigner were killed, adding that around 150 people were rescued, including more than 40 foreigners.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u201cThe body of the foreigner, a woman, was recovered from the sixth floor as the last attacker was being killed,\u201d he added. It was not clear what the victim\u2019s nationality was.<\/h4>\n<h4>But AFP cited an unnamed official with the Afghan intelligence agency as saying that the attack was still ongoing.<\/h4>\n<h4>Special forces, including the Crisis Response Unit as well as foreign troops based in Afghanistan, were called in to end the siege at the high-end hotel, which is frequented by foreigners.<\/h4>\n<h4>No individual or group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack. Both the Taliban and Daesh terrorist groups are present in Afghanistan.<\/h4>\n<h4>The Intercontinental Hotel was attacked by the Taliban in June 2011, when a bombing killed 21 people, including 10 civilians.<\/h4>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A militant attack on a luxury hotel in the Afghan capital of Kabul has ended, leaving six civilians dead, among them a foreigner, according to Afghan officials. \u00a0 A militant attack on a luxury hotel in the Afghan capital of Kabul has ended, leaving six civilians dead, among them a foreigner, according to Afghan officials. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[43,363,477,233],"class_list":["post-5344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islam","tag-afghanistan","tag-attack","tag-capital","tag-kabul"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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