KABUL, AFGHANISTAN (BNO NEWS) -- Three United Nations (UN) personnel were at least fourteen people killed on Friday during a coordinated assault on an upscale restaurant popular with foreigners in the Afghan capital of Kabul, a UN spokesman in New York confirmed on late Friday.

"The Secretary-General condemns in the strongest terms the horrific attack at a restaurant in central Kabul," his spokesman Martin Nesirky said in a statement. "Three United Nations personnel, along with a number of those from other international organizations, are now confirmed dead."

Ari Gaitanis, a spokesman for the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), had said earlier that four UN personnel were unaccounted for. It was not immediately clear whether the fourth UN staff member, who may also have been at or near the scene of the attack, was still unaccounted for.

"Such targeted attacks against civilians are completely unacceptable and are in flagrant breach of international humanitarian law. They must stop immediately," Nesirky added. "The Secretary-General sends his deepest condolences to the families and colleagues of those killed and his hopes for a swift recovery to those injured."

Earlier, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) confirmed its resident representative in Afghanistan was also among those killed.

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