Following reports of a shooting at the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) office in Kabul, reliable sources informed Afghanistan International that the incident occurred on Monday when a Taliban member shot and injured a foreign UNAMA employee.
According to sources, after the incident, the body of the Taliban member was discovered outside the UNAMA office. It is believed that he was killed in retaliatory fire by other Taliban personnel.
Abdul Mateen Qani, the Taliban’s Interior Ministry spokesperson, confirmed the incident, stating that a Taliban member had been killed and a UN employee had sustained minor injuries in the shooting within the UN compound.
Three reliable sources reported that the injured employee was a Nepali national employed as a security contractor for the UNAMA office.
Earlier, UNAMA released a statement confirming that "Taliban guards" were involved in the incident and that an investigation was underway. The statement also verified that one person had been killed and another injured but did not disclose their identities.
Following the shooting, UNAMA staff at the Pul-e-Charkhi office in Kabul were denied entry to their workplace on Monday morning. Officials instructed them to work from home due to security concerns.
A UNAMA employee told Afghanistan International that by Monday noon, they had received messages indicating that the issue had been resolved and that normal operations would resume soon.
