Daesh said in a statement that two of its militants attacked a hotel frequently visited by Chinese diplomats and businessmen and detonated two explosive devices hidden inside two bags and sprayed bullets in the hotel, Xinhua reported.
The emergency hospital in Kabul receiving war injuries said on its Twitter account that it had received 18 injured and three dead after the attack.
Officials of the Afghan capital said that the attack took place at around 2:30 p.m. local time (1000 GMT) on Monday and left two foreigners injured who jumped from the roof of the hotel, adding that security forces killed three attackers during cleanup operations.