(MENAFN- Pajhwok Afghan News) KABUL (Pajhwok): Seven Ukrainians were killed in Saturday€™s attack on Kabul's Intercontinental Hotel, the country€™s foreign minister Pavlo Klimkin said on Sunday.
"Reported to the President about the death of 7 Ukrainians as a result of an attack on a hotel in Kabul," he said on the ministry's Twitter account.
More than 30 people were killed and scores of others wounded when gunmen in army uniforms stormed Kabul's Intercontinental Hotel late on Saturday and battled Afghan Special Forces through the night.
The latest update on the hotel attack shows two Venezuelan pilots were also among the foreigners killed, a family member has told The Associated Press.
The pilots Adelsis Ramos and Pablo Chiossone both worked for the Afghan airline Kam Air, Ramos brother-in-law Luis Figuera told a foreign news agency.
Figuera said the bodies of Ramos, a veteran of the Venezuelan airline Aeropostal, and Chiossone were identified by another Venezuelan pilot at a hospital in Kabul.
The relative said that family members do not yet know how they can repatriate the bodies because the Venezuelan government has no consulate in Afghanistan€™s capital.
A Kazakhstani citizen was among those killed in the Saturday siege of Kabul€™s Intercontinental Hotel by the Taliban.
Anuar Zhainakov, a spokesman for Kazakhstan€™s Foreign Ministry, posted Sunday on his Facebook page: €œTragic news has come from Afghanistan. A citizen of Kazakhstan, born in 1978, was killed today as the result of the attack by militants on the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul.€
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