At least 21 people, most of them foreigners, and including UN and IMF staff, have been killed in a suicide and gun attack in the Afghan capital Kabul.<br /><br />The Taliban says it was behind the bloodshed at a popular Lebanese restaurant. A suicide bomber blew himself up near the entrance. Then gunmen entered and sprayed diners with bullets.<br /><br />“When I was in the kitchen, we heard some explosion outside and then we escaped,” said Suliman, a Lebanese national and cook at the restaurant. “All the guys escaped and after that, I went to the roof. I stayed back…two or three hours.”<br /><br />Fellow cook Ahmad Fawad also ran to the rooftop,then jumped into a neighbouring house and made his escape by running away down a nearby street.<br /><br />“A bomber blew himself up at the gate and the two others were shooting people inside the restaurant,” he said.<br /><br />A Briton was among the 13 foreign victims. <br /><br />Others killed include four UN employees and Lebanese national Wabel Abdallah, the head of the International Monetary Fund’s office in Kabul.<br /><br /> “This is tragic news, and we at the Fund are all<br />devastated,” IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde said in a statement. “Our hearts go out to Wabel’s family and friends, as well as the other victims of this attack.”<br /><br />Security concerns have been rising in Afghanistan as most foreign forces prepare to leave after more than a decade of war.
