BREAKING: Terrorist holding hostages at Lake Side hotel, deaths reported.

Know saying it's in Kabul Afghanistan, foreigners and wealthy locals being held by taliban.

4:20AM Kabual time, women and children among hostages.

Reports said the attack targeted Spozhmai Hotel, which is frequented by wealthy Afghans and foreigners, Reuters reported.

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Suicide bomber, gunmen attack Kabul hotel
22 June 2012 0751 hrs

KABUL: Taliban insurgents have launched a suicide attack on a wedding party at a hotel in a popular Kabul beauty spot, NATO and police said Friday, with Afghan casualties reported.

Afghan security forces and coalition troops are fighting the militants at the site at Qaghar Lake, a spokesman for NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) told AFP.

The target of the attack appeared to be Afghan police and civilians, ISAF said..

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Mohammad Zahir, the head of Kabul police criminal investigation department, said the attack began around 11:30 pm (1900 GMT) on Thursday, when two or three suicide attackers armed with rockets and Kalashnikov rifles stormed a wedding party.

At least one of the attackers detonated his explosive suicide vest, Zahir said.

The attacks sparked a gun battle which is ongoing..
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Taliban siege at popular Kabul lakeside hotel

Updated June 22, 2012 09:30:19



Afghan Taliban gunmen, some armed with rocket-propelled grenades and heavy machine guns, have attacked a hotel in Kabul's popular Qargha Lake recreation area, Afghan police say.

"Insurgents armed with RPG rockets and heavy and light weapons are inside the Spozhmai Hotel and fighting with security forces. We don't know their numbers and if there have been casualties," Mohammad Zahir, head of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Kabul police, said..
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