Saturday, January 18, 2014

21 Dead In Attack On Kabul Restaurant /Des membres de l'ONU et du FMI tués dans un attentat suicide à Kaboul (video R)


Afghan authorities say the death toll from an attack on a Lebanese restaurant in Kabul, frequented by foreigners, officials and business people, rose to 21 on Saturday.

An International Monetary Fund official as well as four United Nations personnel are among the dead.

Authorities say a suicide bomber blew himself up outside the restaurant Friday and that two gunmen entered the establishment and opened fire. The gunmen also were killed.


The Taliban claimed responsibility for the incident.

The commander of NATO's International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, Gen. Joseph Dunford, condemned the Taliban attack and urged the group to stop what he called "the premeditated and indiscriminate slaughter of civilians."

General Zahir Zahir, the Kabul police chief, spoke to VOA by phone about the attackers.

"One of them blew himself up in front of the restaurant and two of them entered the structure and engaged with the guards. Eventually police arrived to the scene and cleaned up the place. The police have the complete situation under control."

The International Monetary Fund said its representative in Afghanistan, 60-year-old Lebanese national Wabel Abdallah, was killed.

IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde issued a statement saying, "This is tragic news, and we at the fund are all devastated."

A statement attributed to the spokesperson for U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Mr. Ban condemns in the strongest terms the horrific attack that left the four U.N. staffers dead. The statement said such targeted attacks against civilians are completely unacceptable, are in flagrant breach of international humanitarian law and must stop immediately.


  • The U.N. Security Council stressed the need to bring the "perpetrators, organizers, financiers and sponsors of these reprehensible acts of terrorism to justice."


  • A number of embassies and foreign organizations have offices in the area of the attack, and many Afghan officials live nearby.
 http://www.voanews.com/content/21-dead-in-attack-on-kabul-restaurant/1832769.html
18/1/14
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  • Trois membres de la mission de l'ONU en Afghanistan (Unama) ont été tués dans l'attaque qui a visé vendredi un restaurant de Kaboul fréquenté par la communauté expatriée, et fait au moins 21 morts, dont 13 étrangers.


 
 Un représentant du FMI a également été tué dans cette attaque menée par un commando taliban.

Selon un communiqué de l'ONU, des membres d'autres organisations internationales figurent aussi parmi les victimes de cet attentat revendiqué par les talibans.

"Ces attaques ciblées contre les civils sont totalement inacceptables et sont une violation flagrante du droit humanitaire international", a souligné Ban Ki-moon, cité par un porte-parole.

Il a condamné l'attaque "dans les termes les plus forts", a poursuivi Farhan Haq, porte-parole adjoint de l'ONU. "Nous avons confirmation que trois membres des Nations unies, ainsi que d'autres personnes appartenant à des organisations internationales, sont morts", a encore dit Farhan Haq.
Auparavant, le Fonds monétaire international (FMI) avait annoncé la mort de l'un de ses représentants dans le pays.


  • Si un premier bilan avait fait état de 14 morts, "le dernier indique que 21 personnes ont été tuées, 13 étrangers et huit Afghans", a déclaré le chef de la police de Kaboul, Mohammad Zahir, précisant que l'attaque avait fait également cinq blessés.
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http://www.rtbf.be/info/monde/detail_attentat-suicide-a-kaboul-des-membres-de-l-onu-et-du-fmi-tues-dans-l-attaque?id=8178899
18/1/14

1 comment :

  1. 2 Canadians among 16 killed after attack in Kabul....

    Two Canadians were among those killed in a suicide bomb attack in Afghanistan’s capital that left at least 16 people dead, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird has confirmed.

    A Taliban suicide bomber detonated an explosive at a Kabul restaurant packed with wealthy Afghans and foreigners, and then two other attackers entered and fired bullets into the crowd.

    “Canada condemns in the strongest possible terms the targeted, cowardly terrorist attack today on a restaurant in Kabul,” Baird said in a statement Friday.............http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/2-canadians-among-16-killed-after-attack-in-kabul-1.1644138#ixzz2qjugFXZr
    17/1/13

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