Non-fatal injuries 7 Date 11 December 2015 Attack type Suicide attack | Perpetrators Taliban Location Kabul, Afghanistan Location Kabul | |
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Deaths 9 (including 3 perpetrators) Similar 2008 bombing of Indian embassy in Kabul, 2013 Afghan presidential palace attack, May 2010 Kabul bombing | ||
On December 11, 2015, Taliban militants detonated a car bomb and stormed a guesthouse near the Spanish embassy in the Shirpour district of Kabul—home to many foreign embassies and high-ranking government officials. Nine people died in the attack, including four Afghans, two Spanish guards and three Taliban fighters. Security forces, including Norwegian special forces took more than ten hours to bring the area back under control.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.
In Oktober 2016, a member of the Norwegian Marinejegerkommandoen was awarded a medal for saving lives of Spanish diplomats during the incident. The soldier was shot 3 times during the incident in Afghanistan. The medal was handed out at the Spanish embassy in Oslo, Norway by the Spanish ambassador to Norway.