KABUL – The Kabul Intercontinental Hotel attack that lasted for over 17hours has ended at last with the eleminiatuon of all 5 militants.

Sources say the Kabul Intercontinental Hotel attack left at least 43 peopledead, including the 11 Kam Air employees who were all foreigners.

A reliable source told TOLOnews that at least 11 Kam Air staff members wereamong those killed in the Taliban siege on Intercontinental Hotel inBagh-e-Bala area in Kabul overnight.

The employees were all foreign citizens, the source said.

Officials of the airline, said they have canceled domestic flights for nowfollowing the incident.

“At least four flights of ours were canceled today because we could not usethe personnel who were shocked due to today’s incident,” Aziz, operationaldeputy head of Kam Air, told TOLOnews.

The Civil Aviation Authority however said the flights will be resumed soon.

“When a flight is canceled it is announced early and when the company isready they announce once again that they are ready to fly,” said MahmoudShah Habibi, head of the authority.

Kam Air runs 20 domestic flights from Hamid Karzai International Airport inKabul every day, the airline officials said.

Afghanistan’s Consul General to Karachi Abdullah Wahid Poyan and the HighPeace Council spokesman Ahmad Farzan and Jamaluddin Pachakhail, thedirector of communication information technology of Farah province weremeanwhile also among those who lost their lives in the attack.

Pachakhail was in Kabul to attend an annual meeting of the Ministry ofCommunication and Information Technology.