At least 22 people were reportedly killed in the attack by a group of gunmen.
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The Taliban militant group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
The attack ended Sunday with all six militants killed by Afghan forces, aided by Norwegian troops. Some reports suggest the attackers may have entered the hotel via a service entrance, and may have been let in by a kitchen employee.
Finance minister Iklil Hakimi meanwhile said the security departments had been aware of the contract signed with the security company over maintaining security of the Intercontinental Hotel.
Two gunmen were killed on Saturday night.
However, there have been several attacks in recent months. that killed more than 40 people.
TOLOnews journalist Hayat Amanat reported an eyewitness saying at least 15 people had died, although this has not been verified.
“Shocked by the tragic news from Afghanistan”, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said in a statement.
In the western Herat province, a roadside bomb struck a vehicle carrying 13 civilians, killing all but one of them, said Abdul Ahad Walizada, a spokesman for the provincial police chief.
“They are now on the third and fourth floors fighting with our forces”.
Afghan security forces went on every floor of the six-story hotel in a clearing operation, said Danish.
CNN reported the attackers were affiliated with the Pakistan-based Haqqani network, but Pakistan’s ministry of foreign affairs publicly condemned the attack.
The relative said that family members do not yet know how they can repatriate the bodies because the Venezuelan government has no consulate in Afghanistan’s capital.
According to one account, by a security official who spoke on condition of anonymity, the gunmen got through an initial checkpoint on the approach road before reaching a second checkpoint close to a auto park near the hotel entrance.
Another survivor told AFP the attackers “even beheaded the guests and people inside the hotel”.
“We lost the general consul himself in the room as a result of the explosion”.
“We overturned the mattresses and messed up the rooms, then opened the balcony doors to make it look as if we had escaped that way”, Poulikakos told Greece’s private Skai TV on Monday.
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In 2011 a suicide attack claimed by the Taliban killed 21 people at the Intercontinental including 10 civilians. However people in the security system say the real figure is certainly above 30 and probably many more.
