A Kabul hotel used by China nationals was attacked as perceived allies of Afghanistan's Taliban rulers are targeted.
Smoke rises from a hotel building after an explosion and gunfire in the city of Kabul, Afghanistan, Dec. 12, 2022.A loud blast followed by gunfire was heard in downtown Kabul on Monday afternoon as assailants attacked a guesthouse used predominantly by Chinese nationals, according to the Kabul police. An Italian-run emergency hospital less than a mile away in the Afghan capital said it had received 21 patients from the attack, three of whom were dead on arrival.
Smoke pours out of a window of a hotel in Kabul, Afghanistan, used by many Chinese nationals, during an attack on December 12, 2022.Videos posted on social media showed fire and thick smoke rising from a lower floor window of the hotel building. Another video, shot from a building opposite the hotel, showed men escaping from another window — one of them clinging desperately to an air conditioning unit before falling several floors.
On Sunday, China's Ambassador Wang Yu met in Kabul with the Taliban regime's Deputy Foreign Minister, Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, and called on the group"to pay more attention to the security of the Chinese Embassy in Kabul," according to a statement from the Taliban Ministry of foreign affairs. Pakistan, Russia, China, and Iran, some of Afghanistan's neighbors, have all been accused of supporting the Taliban at various points over the last 20 years. The Russians were even accused of putting up a bounty on American troops in Afghanistan.
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