Three Taliban suicide attackers and one policeman are dead hours after an attack on Kabul's Northgate Hotel, police said Monday, according to dpa. Three policemen were wounded during a battle with insurgents as they tried to enter the hotel through a gap made when they detonated a truck filled with explosives, General Abdul Rahman Rahimi, head of Kabul police said. "Two of our police patrols got to the scene immediately after the initial blast," General Rahimi said. The Taliban failed to enter Northgate, a facility providing life-support services to foreign military personnel in the Afghan capital. Regular and special police units started clearing operations at dawn and killed both the remaining attackers. "No harm or casualties were inflicted to national or foreign residents within Northgate," Rahimi said, but added that police were still investigating whether any civilians had been injured by the blast. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.
