Several dead after gunmen attack Afghanistan’s Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul
Gunmen attacked Kabul's Intercontinental Hotel on Saturday, seizing prisoners and trading gunfire with security powers as the working in the Afghan capital burst into flames and occupants and staff fled.

Inn director Ahmad Haris Nayab, who got away unhurt, said the aggressors had got into the principle part of the lodging through a kitchen and individuals attempted to get out in the midst of blasts of gunfire.

A few people had been killed and no less than six injured in the strike, which came days after a U.S. international safe haven cautioning of conceivable assaults on inns in Kabul, Nasrat Rahimi, an inside service representative, said. Nonetheless, authorities gave no different points of interest on loss numbers

There was no quick claim of duty regarding the most recent in a long arrangement of assaults which underlined the city's dubious circumstance and the capacity of activists to strike blows went for undermining trust in the Western-supported government.

Authorities said there were upwards of four assailants and no less than two of them had been slaughtered as Afghan Special Forces cleared the principal floor and climbed the building, doing combating the pillagers, who seemed to have a huge supply of hand explosives.

Hours after the assault started, terminating seemed to ease as security powers settled in, sitting tight for first light.

As indicated by one witness, who did not have any desire to be named, the aggressors took some lodging staff and visitors prisoner. He said a few nonnatives were among the inn visitors however it was not clear what their nationality was.