Taliban storm guesthouse in Kabul

An Afghan child was killed when five suicide bombers armed with assault rifles attacked the guesthouse of a U.S.-based anti-land-mine organization in Kabul, Roots of Peace, officials said Friday.

At least five civilians were injured from the explosions, one of which occurred outside the front gate of the building, the Afghan deputy interior minister said.

Four people, who were trapped inside the guesthouse during the attack, are "alive and safe," a military commander said, but a child was killed in the assault, with another one listed as injured.

The siege ended after Afghan security forces killed the last Taliban gunman holed up inside. Qadam Shah Shaheem, commander of 111 Military Corps Kabul, told Reuters that all five attackers were now dead.

"One detonated his car loaded with explosives, three others detonated explosives attached to their bodies inside the building, and one was shot by security forces," he said. 

The Taliban have claimed responsibility for the attack on what group spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid called “a guesthouse of foreigners and a church of foreigners.”

The Roots of Peace website says it works on removing land mines left over from the Soviet occupation and Afghan civil war in the 1990s and assists Afghan farmers.

Al Jazeera with wire services