Police: Kabul hotel attack ends, 3 Taliban attackers killed

A Taliban attack on a Kabul hotel housing foreign contractors ended Monday after all three Taliban fighters were killed, around seven hours after the assault began, police said.

“The operation is over now. One policeman lost his life and three others were wounded but none of the hotel staff or guests were hurt,” Kabul police chief Abdul Rahman Rahimi told reporters.

The powerful Taliban truck bomb struck a guesthouse housing foreigners in Kabul. Northgate, close to the US-run Bagram air base north of Kabul, houses foreign contractors and is a heavily guarded compound with blast walls and watchtowers.

The Taliban said the truck bomb at a guest house belonging to “American invaders” paved the way for their fighters to enter the facility with rocket-propelled grenades and small arms.