Two Bangladeshi nationals are among the nine people killed in a gun attack at Serena Hotel in Kabul of Afghanistan Thursday, reports The New York Times. However, an official at the Foreign Ministry here on Saturday said they are looking into the matter and will get back with details once they get identity of the Bangladesh nationals.
Four men with pistols opened fire inside the luxurious Serena Hotel complex in central Kabul on Thursday night, killing nine people before being gunned down and sowing panic in an exclusive enclave frequented by foreign officials, prominent Afghans and an array of development workers.
The National Democratic Institute decided on Friday morning to pull out staff members who were staying at the hotel after one of them, Luis María Duarte, a former Paraguayan diplomat, was killed.
Duarte and the other staff members were in Afghanistan to observe next month’s presidential election, and the organization was reassessing its election monitoring activities.
The other dead in Thursday’s attack included the mother and two of her children, along with their father, Sardar Ahmad, a prominent Afghan journalist.
A Canadian, two Bangladeshi nationals and another Afghan woman were also killed, the report says.- UNB, Dhaka
