KABUL: Four gunmen attacked Kabul’s luxury Intercontinental Hotel onSaturday and started shooting at guests, an Afghan official said, in thelatest violence to strike the Afghan capital.
“Four attackers are inside the building,” an official at the Afghan spyagency told AFP.
They are “shooting at guests”, he said.
The fourth floor of the hotel is on fire, the official from the NationalDirectorate of Security added.
Occupants inside the hotel are hiding on the second floor, a securitysource said.
A guest hiding in his room in the hotel told AFP he could hear gunfire.
“I don’t know if the attackers are inside the hotel but I can hear gunfirefrom somewhere near the first floor,” he said without giving his name.
“We are hiding in our rooms. I beg the security forces to rescue us as soonas possible before they reach and kill us.”
The Intercontinental was last targeted in June 2011 when a suicide attackkilled 21 people, including 10 civilians.