ISIS-K Claims Kabul Bombing That Killed Seven, Including Chinese Citizen
The Islamic State group’s Khorasan branch, known as ISIS-K, has claimed responsibility for a suicide attack on a Chinese restaurant in Kabul’s Shahr-e Naw area.
The Islamic State group’s Khorasan branch, known as ISIS-K, has claimed responsibility for a suicide attack on a Chinese restaurant in Kabul’s Shahr-e Naw area.
The explosion occurred at about 3 p.m. local time on Monday, January 19. Taliban authorities have confirmed that seven people, including one Chinese national, were killed and that 13 others were wounded.
In a statement published by ISIS’s Amaq News Agency, the group said a suicide bomber entered a Chinese restaurant in Shahr-e Naw and detonated explosives among Chinese nationals and their guards.
ISIS-K claimed the attack killed and wounded Chinese citizens, Afghan civilians and Taliban members guarding the site. Without providing evidence, the group said the total number of dead and wounded was 25.
The statement said Chinese nationals were targeted over what the group described as China’s treatment of Uyghur Muslims.
Earlier, Afghanistan International, citing sources, reported that the incident was a suicide attack.
Taliban officials said the Chinese national killed in the blast was a Muslim from China’s Xinjiang region, identified as Abdul Rahman.
Video obtained by Afghanistan International shows the blast destroyed the signboard and parts of the Chinese restaurant China Lanzhou Beef Noodle in the Shahr-e Naw neighbourhood of Kabul.
