Taliban claim responsibility for Kabul attack

The Taliban claimed responsibility for taking a number of UN workers hostage in the Afghan capital on Wednesday. An Afghan police source said the militants were holding four foreign nationals hostage in a guest house in Kabul.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for taking a number of UN workers hostage in the Afghan capital on Wednesday.

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"Several Taliban suiciders (took) hostage several UN workers in Kabul," the Islamist movement said in an English-language text message sent to Reuters.

An Afghan police source said the militants were holding four foreign nationals hostage in a guest house in Kabul. "They may have killed some of them," the police source told Reuters.

A UN spokesman said some UN workers had been wounded.