{"id":36753,"date":"2026-01-19T15:04:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T15:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=36753"},"modified":"2026-01-19T15:04:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T15:04:21","slug":"several-killed-in-hotel-blast-in-kabul-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=36753","title":{"rendered":"Several killed in hotel blast in Kabul, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Several people were killed or injured in a blast at a hotel in a heavily guarded part of central Kabul on Monday, Afghan officials said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;According to preliminary reports, a number of people were killed and injured,&#8221; Interior Ministry spokesperson Abdul Mateen Qani told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Kabul police spokesperson Khalid Zadran said the blast targeted a hotel on Gulfaroshi Street in the commercial Shahr-e-Naw neighbourhood, an area that includes large office buildings, shopping complexes, restaurants and embassies, and is considered one of the safest parts of the capital.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An explosion occurred in a hotel on Gulfaroshi Street in Shahr-e-Naw, the fourth district of Kabul city, causing casualties,&#8221; Kabul police spokesman Khalid Zadran said without detailing the cause.<\/p>\n<p>Read More: Islamabad police arrest 16-member gang smuggling stolen phones to Afghanistan<\/p>\n<p>Abdul Mateen Qani, the interior ministry spokesman, told AFP: &#8220;We do have casualties, both wounded and killed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>An AFP journalist saw firefighters clearing the site and an ambulance, with police officers surrounding the area.<\/p>\n<p>Two Chinese citizens were seriously wounded, China&#8217;s state news agency Xinhua reported, citing a restaurant employee.<\/p>\n<p>An Afghan security guard was killed and the restaurant was severely damaged, Xinhua said.<\/p>\n<p>Flower sellers usually work in the vicinity, which also hosts a hospital and multiple restaurants.<br \/>\nNo group has claimed responsibility for the blast.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban took control of the war-torn country in 2021 and said it would restore security, but attacks have continued, many of them claimed by the local affiliate of the Islamic State militant group.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several people were killed or injured in a blast at a hotel in a heavily guarded part of central Kabul on Monday, Afghan officials said. &#8220;According to preliminary reports, a number of people were killed and injured,&#8221; Interior Ministry spokesperson Abdul Mateen Qani told Reuters. Kabul police spokesperson Khalid Zadran said the blast targeted a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}