A luxury hotel in Afghanistan was bombed by terrorists.

Taliban terrorists say that their fighters carried a suicide bombing, a gun and grenade attack in Hotel Serena located in the heart of Kabul.

The attack occurred early in the evening and ambulances were rushed at the site, the Press Association reports. No details were released about the wounded.

According to an American woman who was at the time of the incident in hotel’s gym, said that after the blast she heard a gunfire. In the lobby she saw a body and marks from the bullets in the gym area.

The guests were taken to the cellar.

According to Taleban spokesman Zadihullah Mujahid, four of the terrorists were suicide fighters with grenades, Kalashnikovs and explosives jackets, BBC said.

Mujahid said one of them detonated the explosive in the building and the others managed to escaped.

According to some reports, two security guards were killed.

It seems that at the time of the attack a delegation from the Norwegian embassy along with its ambassador was in the hotel.

Hotel Serena is a luxury hotel known to be used for parties and meetings by the foreign embassies.

Another American woman, Vanessa Valentino, who is working in Kabul and was at the central bank at the time of the incident, said she heard the blast and gunfire.

At first she heard an explosion, then gunfire and afterwards another explosion far away followed by a big one nearby.

She said: "I think it shook the building. We're just not leaving the building, and we can't figure out what's happened, so we decided to stay inside."