DHAKA: Two Bangladeshis among nine people were killed when Taliban gunmen attacked a luxury hotel in Afghanistan Friday.

The identity of the Bangladeshi deceased could not be known immediately.

The attack took place on Thursday night local time, when four men with pistols stuffed in their socks stormed the Serena Hotel in Kabul, a popular hotel for the diplomatic community. All of the gunmen were reportedly killed by Afghan troops.

The Afghan capital has been hit by several attacks, but authorities appeared stunned that the militants had managed to get through the tight security at the Serena Hotel — considered one of the safest places to stay in Kabul.

The attack in Kabul came just hours after the Taliban killed 11 people in an audacious assault on a police station in the city of Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan.

BDST: 1139 HRS, MAR 22, 2014