Hotel attacker wore police uniform

Afghanistan’s intelligence service arrested a militant wearing a police uniform who allegedly took part in the multi-pronged attack on Kabul’s main luxury hotel that killed seven people, officials said today.

Amrullah Saleh, the head of Afghanistan’s intelligence service, said three militants stormed the Serena Hotel on Monday evening. A guard shot and killed one attacker, which triggered his suicide vest.

A second attacker blew himself up near the hotel’s entrance, and the third attacker made it inside the hotel and shot his way through the lobby and toward the gym, Saleh said.

The third attacker was eventually apprehended and arrested.

Saleh showed a picture taken from the hotel’s security cameras showing a man in a police uniform and holding a gun inside the hotel’s lobby, apparently the third attacker.