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Taliban militants kill six U.N. foreign staff

28 October 2009 07:46 (UTC +04:00)

Kabul â€“ APA. Six U.N. foreign staff were killed when Taliban militants attacked an international guest-house in Kabul on Wednesday, while rockets were fired at a foreign-owned hotel in the Afghan capital, forcing 100 guests into a bunker, APA reports quoting Reuters.
An increasingly resurgent Taliban have vowed to stage attacks ahead of a run-off in Afghanistan’s presidential election on Nov. 7 and the apparently coordinated assault on Wednesday will raise questions about security for the vote.
"The number right now is six dead, all of them U.N. staff," said Adrian Edwards, spokesman for the United Nations mission in Afghanistan, adding at least nine were wounded in the attack on the guest-house.
Their nationalities were unclear. Afghan forces exchanged gunfire for hours with militants inside the house, police said.
Later the bodies of three suspected suicide bombers, apparently ripped apart when they detonated their explosives, could be seen lying inside the compound.