Aggressors hold Americans, different nonnatives at Kabul visitor house

Walk 28, 2014 - Updated 1453 GMT (2253 HKT)

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

 NEW: Official says outsiders being held incorporate Americans, a Malaysian

 A Taliban agent guarantees the outside visitor house is utilized to change over Afghans to Christianity

 This comes in front of the Afghan presidential race

Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) - Militants stormed a visitor house utilized by outsiders within Afghanistan's capital Friday and were holding no less than five individuals there - including three Americans - throughout a resulting standoff with police, the nation's appointee inner part serve said.

The Taliban asserted obligation, with an agent, Zaillah Mujahid, saying they ambushed an area utilized by outsiders as a congregation and for changing over Afghans to Christianity.

The assault started with a suicide shelling, as an ambusher in an auto exploded his explosives outside the building, Deputy Interior Minister Gen. Mohammad Ayoub Salangi said. No less than three different ambushers then stormed the building, he said.

Three shooters were holding five individuals in the building: three Americans, one Malaysian and one man from an unspecified African nation, Salangi said. The shooters were occupied with a standoff with police, he said.

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One assailant was dead, Salangi said. It wasn't promptly clear whether that ambusher was the suicide assault aviator. There were no other quick reports of setbacks.

Kabul police representative Hashmat Stanikzai said the Uzbek Embassy and the work places of different associations are in the zone.

This ambush comes three days after activists stormed a race requisition office in Kabul, killing five individuals: two cops, two decision requisition specialists and a commonplace chamber competitor, a representative for the Afghan Interior Ministry said.

The Taliban, which guaranteed obligation regarding Tuesday's strike, promised to utilize energy to disturb the April 5 presidential decision. The Tuesday strike brought about a five-hour gunbattle with Afghan security administrations.

Furthermore a week ago, the Taliban guaranteed obligation regarding an assault on the Afghan capital's Serena Hotel in which a senior journalist for the Agence France-Presse news org, his wife and two of his three kids were murdered. Five others were additionally murdered. The lodging was facilitating exceptional festivals at the time of the ambush to stamp the eve of the Persian New Year.