{"id":36804,"date":"2026-01-20T00:04:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T00:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=36804"},"modified":"2026-01-20T00:04:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T00:04:37","slug":"seven-dead-as-blast-hits-kabul-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=36804","title":{"rendered":"Seven dead as blast hits Kabul restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>An explosion tore through a Chinese-run restaurant in a hotel in a heavily guarded part of Afghanistan&#8217;s capital on Monday, killing a Chinese national and six Afghans and injuring several others including a child, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The restaurant was in the commercial Shahr-e-Naw neighbourhood of Kabul that includes office buildings, shopping complexes and embassies, police spokesperson Khalid Zadran said.<\/p>\n<p>The district is considered one of the safest in the city. The Chinese noodle restaurant was jointly run by a Chinese Muslim, Abdul Majid, his wife, and an Afghan partner, Abdul Jabbar Mahmood, and served the Chinese Muslim community, Zadran said.<\/p>\n<p>One Chinese national, identified as Ayub, and six Afghans were killed in the blast, which occurred near the kitchen, while several others were injured, Zadran added.<\/p>\n<p>Videos shared on social media showed debris scattered on the street outside and smoke spewing from a large hole torn into the front of the restaurant building.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So far, we have received 20 people at our hospital,&#8221; Dejan Panic, humanitarian group EMERGENCY&#8217;s Country Director in Afghanistan, said in a statement. &#8220;Among the wounded are four women and a child &#8230; Unfortunately, seven people were already dead on arrival.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There was no immediate word on the cause of the explosion. Authorities said they were investigating.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An explosion tore through a Chinese-run restaurant in a hotel in a heavily guarded part of Afghanistan&#8217;s capital on Monday, killing a Chinese national and six Afghans and injuring several others including a child, officials said. The restaurant was in the commercial Shahr-e-Naw neighbourhood of Kabul that includes office buildings, shopping complexes and embassies, police [&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-36804","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\/36804","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=36804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}