More than forty individuals have been killed after Taliban gunmen stormed the Intercontinental Hotel in Afghanistan’s capital on Saturday, a authorities official advised Fox News on Sunday. Afghan particular forces had been lowered by helicopters on to the roof of the hotel during the evening, an interior ministry spokesman stated. Six different people, including three safety forces, had been reported wounded and more than one hundred fifty folks, together with 41 foreigners, have been rescued from the hotel, Danish stated. Afghan inside ministry spokesman Najib Danish stated details of the raid, which came days after a US embassy warning of doable assaults on hotels within the capital, had been unclear.

The assault unfolded virtually six years after Taliban insurgents launched the same assault on the property, which isn’t part of the InterContinental chain of worldwide hotels. Afghan special forces have ended a siege at Kabul’s Intercontinental Hotel, leaving at the very least five civilians dead in an assault claimed by the Taliban armed group , a authorities official has instructed Al Jazeera.

Afghan safety forces keep watch as smoke rises from the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul, Afghanistan, January 21, 2018. The Taliban claimed accountability for the attack, saying 5 individuals took half, whereas a witness told Reuters he saw four attackers dressed in army uniforms. “The federal government could have a lot of inquiries to reply and the massive query on all people’s thoughts proper now could be ‘how did these attackers get in to the hotel,” she said.

The hotel, situated on a hilltop and closely protected like most public buildings in the metropolis, was previously attacked by Taliban fighters in 2011. In separate incidents on Sunday, eight individuals had been killed by a roadside bomb in the western province of Herat and 18 members of local militia forces had been killed at a checkpoint in the northern province of Balkh.

“We are conscious of reviews that extremist groups could also be planning an assault towards hotels in Kabul,” the embassy wrote in a public security alert printed Thursday , though it highlighted another hotel close to the worldwide airport as a attainable goal. At the very least four gunmen have launched an assault on Kabul’s Intercontinental Hotel, Afghan officials say.