On December 11, 2015,

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militants detonated a car bomb and stormed a guesthouse near the Spanish embassy in the Shirpour district of

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home to many foreign embassies and high-ranking government officials. Nine people died in the attack, including four Afghans, two Spanish military policemen and three Taliban fighters. Security forces, including

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special forces, took more than ten hours to bring the area back under control. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. In October 2016, a member of the

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was awarded a medal for saving lives of

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diplomats during the incident. The soldier was shot three times during the incident. The medal was handed out at the

embassy in

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, Norway by the Spanish ambassador to Norway.

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