{"id":12921,"date":"2022-12-13T21:11:42","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T21:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=12921"},"modified":"2022-12-13T21:11:42","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T21:11:42","slug":"china-urges-citizens-to-leave-afghanistan-after-kabul-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2022\/12\/china-urges-citizens-to-leave-afghanistan-after-kabul-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"China urges citizens to leave Afghanistan after Kabul attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KABUL (SW) &#8211; China on Tuesday advised its citizens in Afghanistan to leave the country \u201cas soon as possible,\u201d following a coordinated attack by Islamic State militants the previous day on a Chinese-owned hotel in the heart of Kabul<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese advisory appeared to be a setback for Afghanistan\u2019s Taliban rulers who seek foreign investments in hopes of halting the downward spiral of the Afghan economy since their takeover of the country more than a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>The militant Islamic State group \u2014 a key rival of the Taliban \u2014 claimed responsibility for the attack Monday afternoon on Kabul Longan Hotel, which left three assailants dead and at least two hotel guests injured as they tried to escape by jumping out of a window, reported AP.<\/p>\n<p>Plumes of smoke rose from the 10-story building in the central Shar-e Naw neighborhood, according to images posted on social media as the attack unfolded. Residents reported explosions and gunfire.<\/p>\n<p>Taliban forces rushed to the area and blocked all roads leading to the site. Khalid Zadran, the Taliban-appointed spokesman for the Kabul police chief, said the attack lasted several hours, followed by a clean-up operation.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin called the attack \u201cegregious in nature\u201d and said China was \u201cdeeply shocked.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Beijing demanded a \u201cthorough investigation\u201d and urged the Taliban government \u201cto take resolute and strong measures to ensure the safety of Chinese citizens, institutions and projects in Afghanistan,\u201d Wang said.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese Embassy in Kabul sent its team to the site to help with the rescue, treatment and accommodations for the victims of the attack, Wang added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn view of the current security situation in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs once again advised Chinese citizens and institutions in Afghanistan to evacuate from Afghanistan as soon as possible,\u201d Wang said.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<!--\/data\/user\/0\/com.samsung.android.app.notes\/files\/clipdata\/clipdata_bodytext_221214_081007_524.sdocx--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) &#8211; China on Tuesday advised its citizens in Afghanistan to leave the country \u201cas soon as possible,\u201d following a coordinated attack by Islamic State militants the previous day on a Chinese-owned hotel in the heart of Kabul. The Chinese advisory appeared to be a setback for Afghanistan\u2019s Taliban rulers who seek foreign investments [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,984,978,17,194],"tags":[12,596],"class_list":["post-12921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-security","category-security_","category-world","tag-afghanistan","tag-china"],"views":75,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12923,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12921\/revisions\/12923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}