Multiple people have died and wounded after a deadly blast hit a hotel in central Kabul on Monday, January 19, city police and the Afghan government said. "An explosion occurred in a hotel on Gulfaroshi Street in Shahr-e-Naw, the fourth district of Kabul city, causing casualties," Kabul police spokesman Khalid Zadran said without detailing the cause. A purported video of Kabul hotel blast circulating on social media showed a car driving near a Chinese hotel before a blast shatters it. According to China's news agency Xinhua, two Chinese citizens were also seriously wounded in the Kabul hotel blast, a restaurant employees said. Also Read | Donald Trump wants Bagram airbase in Afghanistan back from Taliban: Here's whyA report security agencies as saying that Chinese nationals were the targets in the Kabul hotel blast case.

Source: Mint January 19, 2026 13:57 UTC