More than 50 foreign and local officials and soldiers killed in Kabul attack

KABUL, Feb. 26 - There are reports from Kabul city that at least 50 foreign diplomats and Afghan soldiers were killed in Friday's attack in Safi Landmark hotel located in Shahri Now in the heart of Kabul city.

As per details, a Mujahid reached by the telephone, said that five martyr-seeking Mujahideen of the Islamic Emirate, penetrating into all security checks and barriers had entered heavily-secured Kabul city in the early morning hours of Friday who had conducted a series of attacks and gunbattles using martyr and heavy and small arms attacks.

The Mujahid in his telephonic conversation said the first martyr attacker, Naseer Ahmad, had slammed his explosive-filled vehicle into a part of the hotel where at least 24 had been killed and a number wounded out of 50 foreign and domestic officials who were staying there, which was moments later followed by a second martyr bomb attack by another Mujahid, killing the rest of the wounded from the first bomb attack.

Meantime, the other three Mujahideen of a group of five have penetrated another guesthouse and immediately opened firing at the security guards and foreign guests, killing about 30 foreign officials and Afghan soldiers.

After positioning themselves in the guesthouse, started targeting other government buildings from there, who besides damaging the buildings inflicted casualties and losses on the officials based in the certain buildings.

Two hours after the incident, the soldiers of Afghan minion army reached the site where they met with the strong residences from the three Mujahideen for about five hours.

The three heroic Mujahideen have fought the local soldiers till the last moment of their life and finally one of those, Ajmal, conducted a martyr bomb attack, damaging a part of the hotel followed by two straight martyr bomb attacks carried out by the rest of two Mujahideen, Muhammadulllah and Zafar, damaging some part of the hotel and killing dozens.

Source: Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.
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