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At least 21 people – 13 foreigners and eight Afghans – were killed in an apparent Taliban suicide bomb and gun attack on a restaurant in a heavily fortified area of Kabul.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The assailants targeted Taverna du Liban, a Lebanese restaurant popular with expatriates and diplomats, in a neighbourhood of Kabul where many embassy buildings and offices of non-governmental organisations are located.<\/span>
Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, strongly condemned Friday’s attack through his spokesman, who said: “Such targeted attacks against civilians are completely unacceptable and are in flagrant breach of international humanitarian law.” <\/span>
Christine Lagarde, the chief of the International Monetary Fund, said Wabel Abdallah, 60, a Lebanese who had been the its representative in Afghanistan since June 2008, was among those killed in the attack.<\/span>
The UK’s Foreign Office said that a British national was among the dead while Canada said two of its citizens were killed in the “cowardly terrorist attack”.<\/span>
Zabiullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman, said his group carried out the attack.<\/span>
“There was a suicide attack on a foreign hotel where special foreign invaders are coming for dinner,” he said. “In this attack an explosive was used which was very strong and heavy casualties and massive destruction happened.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Heavily fortified area<\/strong><\/span>
The assault happened at dinner time on Friday in the heavily fortified Wazir Akbar Khan district where many wealthy Afghans also live.<\/span>
A suicide bomber detonated his explosives at the front door, before two other attackers entered through the kitchen and opened fire. <\/span>
Ahmad Fawad, a cook at the restaurant, said: “We escaped to the neighbour’s house through the roof. There were around eight or nine of us, hiding ourselves there.<\/span>
“We could hear the shooting. Two attackers were inside. All the guests who were eating dinner were killed including our manager and the other cook.”<\/span>
Gunfire continued for about 20 minutes after the initial explosion before the attackers were killed by security guards, local government sources said.<\/span>
General Mohammad Zahir Zahir, Kabul’s police chief, said the 16 people killed were all inside the Taverna du Liban.<\/span>
Ayoub Salangai, Afghanistan’s deputy interior minister, said on Twitter that the dead included four women.<\/span>
Officials said at least four other people were wounded.<\/span>
The Taverna du Liban is one of three Lebanese restaurants in Kabul.<\/span>
It has steel doors and customers have to pass through security to get in, as is the case with many restaurants in the city.<\/span>
Al Jazeera’s Jane Ferguson, reporting from Kabul, said the attack was a significant “breach of security” given the location.<\/span>
“The scenes inside the restaurant is quite incredible,” she said. “Anybody inside seems unlikely to have escaped from the gunmen.”<\/span>
Friday’s assault is the first one to target a civilian restaurant since the Lake Qargha attack by the Taliban in the summer of 2012.<\/span>
A series of attacks in 2013 targeted foreign compounds, the Supreme Court, the airport and the presidential palace in Kabul.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source: Al Jazeera<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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