A suicide bomber entered a restaurant in Kabul, which was frequented by Chinese nationals, and detonated an explosive vest, according to the group’s statement posted late on Monday in a statement posted on its Aamaq news agency.
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According to ISIL’s statement, 25 people were killed or injured in the explosion, including Taliban guards, and that the country had been the target of growing Uighurs’ crimes.
The cause of the explosion at the Chinese Noodle restaurant in the highly commercial Shahr-e-Naw area is “unknown so far and is being investigated,” according to Mufti Abdul Mateen Qani, a spokesperson for the ministry of interior.
A Chinese national, who was only identified as Ayub, and six Afghans were killed, according to police spokesperson Khalid Zadran.
According to Zadran, a Chinese Muslim man named Abdul Majid, his wife, and Abdul Jabbar Mahmood, an Afghan partner, jointly run the restaurant.
Five Chinese nationals were injured, according to Guo Jiakun, a spokesperson for the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and he urged Afghanistan to “spare no effort” in treating the injured and take steps to protect the safety of its citizens and investments at a press briefing.
China, which has a 76-kilometer (47-mile) border with Afghanistan, has close ties to the Taliban government, and Chinese businesspeople have flocked to the nation since the group took control of Afghanistan’s divided region in 2021.
Beijing refutes claims made by human rights organizations that it is to blame for widespread abuses of the Uighurs, a largely Muslim ethnic minority group that makes up the majority of the population in China’s far-western region of Xinjiang.
Source: Aljazeera
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