NORWEGIAN JOURNALIST KILLED IN KABUL HOTEL TALIBAN ATTACK
January 16th 2008 08:12
Carsten Thomassen, a Norwegian journalist employed by the Oslo-based daily Dagbladet, who was fatally injured in the armed Taliban attack on a luxury Serena Hotel in Kabul.
Thomassen sustained serious stomach injuries in the suicide attack on the Serena Hotel and died in a field hospital near Kabul.
He was part of a group of journalists accompanying Norwegian foreign minister Jonas Gahr Stoere on a visit to Kabul. Stoere, who was in the hotel at the time of the attack, was not hurt but a Norwegian diplomat was seriously injured.
The attack, which has been claimed by the Taliban, left a toll of eight dead and six wounded. It was carried by several men armed with grenades and AK-47 rifles, one of whom blew himself up in the entrance to the hotel, which is in the centre of Kabul near the presidential palace and many foreign embassies.
Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten reported that colleagues of the journalist frantically tried to save his life in the lobby of a blood-splattered Kabul hotel.
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