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Afghanistan: 3 foreigners killed in Kabul attack

Afghan security personnel carry a dead body into an ambulance at the site of a battle between Afghanistan's security forces and Taliban fighters, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Nov. 29, 2014. Taliban attackers armed with suicide bomb vests and assault rifles killed several people, one a foreigner, during a raid on a guesthouse near the Afghan parliament Saturday, authorities said, the latest attack in the capital as NATO troops withdraw from the country. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini) Afghan security personnel carry a dead body into an ambulance at the site of a battle between Afghanistan's security forces and Taliban fighters, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Nov. 29, 2014. Taliban attackers armed with suicide bomb vests and assault rifles killed several people, one a foreigner, during a raid on a guesthouse near the Afghan parliament Saturday, authorities said, the latest attack in the capital as NATO troops withdraw from the country. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)

By Associated Press November 30, 2014 1 min read

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – An Afghan official says three South African nationals and one Afghan were killed in an attack on a guesthouse in the capital Kabul, revising the original toll up from one foreigner.

The chief of Kabul police, Gen. Mohammed Zahir, said Sunday that the head of an international aid group was killed, along with his son and daughter, in the attack the day before. He gave no ages for the children, and did not identify the organization.

Zahir said one of the three attackers wore a police uniform.

The attack was the second in as many days on guesthouses occupied by foreigners, and comes amid a spike in violence in the Afghan capital.

The U.S. and NATO formally end their 13-year combat mission in Afghanistan on Dec. 31.