Taliban skryter av at fire av deres folk angrep Hotel Serena: én sprengte seg selv i lufta, og de tre andre skjøt og kastet granater. For folk i hotellet kom angrepet som et sjokk. Amerikanske Suzanne Griffin, forteller hvordan de satt nede i gymrommet og hørte eksplosjonene ovenpå. De skrudd av mobilene for ikke å bli oppdaget. Akkurat som på film.

Suzanne Griffin, an American who works with the aid agency Save the Children, said she was in the gym’s locker room when the attack started.

«Thank God I didn’t get into the shower because then we heard gunfire, a lot of it. It was very close, close enough that plaster came off the ceiling,» said Griffin, her voice shaking. «We all just sat on the floor and got as far as we could from any glass and huddled on the floor. We turned our phones on silent.»

Griffin, 62, from Seattle, Wash., said hotel staff evacuated the women to another part of the hotel. «We had to step over a woman’s dead body. She was one of the gym people,» she said.

She contacted the U.S. embassy, which told her to not open the door unless she heard an American voice. U.S. soldiers evacuated her.

«There was blood on the floor all the way to the kitchen. There was a lot of blood in the lobby. There were empty shell casings outside,» she said.

2 dead in attack on luxury Kabul hotel