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ISIL (ISIS) has claimed responsibility for an explosion at a Chinese restaurant<\/span> in Afghanistan\u2019s capital that killed at least seven people.<\/p>\n The group said in a statement posted on its Aamaq news agency late on Monday that a suicide bomber entered a restaurant in Kabul frequented by Chinese nationals and detonated an explosive vest.<\/p>\n ISIL\u2019s statement, which claimed 25 people were killed or wounded in the blast, including Taliban guards, linked the attack to \u201cgrowing crimes by the Chinese government against Uighurs\u201d and issued a further threat against Chinese nationals in the country.<\/p>\n Ministry of Interior spokesperson Mufti Abdul Mateen Qani said on Tuesday that the cause of the explosion at the Chinese Noodle restaurant in the commercial Shahr-e-Naw area was \u201cunknown so far and is being investigated\u201d.<\/p>\n Police spokesperson Khalid Zadran said the blast killed a Chinese national, identified only as Ayub, and six Afghans.<\/p>\n The restaurant serving the Chinese Muslim community was jointly run by a Chinese Muslim man, Abdul Majid, his wife and an Afghan partner, Abdul Jabbar Mahmood, Zadran said.<\/p>\n Guo Jiakun, a spokesperson for China\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said at a news briefing that five Chinese nationals were injured, requesting that Afghanistan \u201cspare no effort\u201d in treating the wounded and take measures to protect the safety of its citizens and investments.<\/p>\n China, which shares a 76km (47-mile) border with Afghanistan, has close ties with the Taliban<\/span> government, and Chinese business visitors have flocked to the country since the group took control of war-torn Afghanistan in 2021.<\/p>\n Beijing denies claims by rights groups that it is guilty of widespread abuses of the Uighurs<\/span>, a mainly Muslim ethnic minority group numbering about 10 million who make up most of the population of China\u2019s far western region of Xinjiang.<\/p>\n Despite Taliban promises to restore security, bomb attacks have continued in the country, many of them claimed by the local affiliate of ISIL.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n