A group of four or five gunmen <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Inter-Continental_Hotel_Kabul_attack" id="mwATs" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="2018 Inter-Continental Hotel Kabul attack">attack The Inter-Continental Hotel</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabul" id="mwATw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Kabul">Kabul</a>, Afghanistan, sparking a 12-hour battle. The attack kills 40 people and injures many others.<sup about="#mwt90" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-16"}}' id="cite_ref-16" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./January_20#cite_note-16" id="mwAT0" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 16;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAT4">[16]</span></a></sup>
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