ISIS’s regional offshoot, ISKP claimed responsibility for the bomb and gun attack on a multi-story hotel in Kabul on Monday, which left at least 3 assailants killed and 21 others injured, including foreign nationals.
The ISKP shared a video of the hotel on fire, showing smoke billowing from the building and a floor ablaze, and claimed that “Chinese communists and Taliban elements” were the attack targets.
A gun and bomb attack on Monday, December 12, on a hotel in the heart of Kabul left more than a dozen Chinese citizens injured five of them critically, according to a Chinese businessman in the Afghan capital.
#AFG “At least 5 people were killed. At least 34 people were wounded. The complex attack against a hotel took place in Share Naw, Kabul hotel was hosting mostly Chinese nationals in the heart of Kabul city.” A senior Taliban official in Kabul tells me. pic.twitter.com/gt7FAiOYxi
— BILAL SARWARY (@bsarwary) December 12, 2022
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Source: Khaama Press/Bilal Sarwary – Twitter