{"id":47219,"date":"2021-12-25T22:24:08","date_gmt":"2021-12-25T22:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=47219"},"modified":"2021-12-25T22:24:08","modified_gmt":"2021-12-25T22:24:08","slug":"suicide-bomber-causes-deadly-blast-at-drc-restaurant-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=47219","title":{"rendered":"Suicide bomber causes deadly blast at DRC restaurant: Official"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"article__subhead css-1wt8oh6\"><em>At least six people killed as suicide bomber strikes restaurant in Beni city near the DRC\u2019s eastern border with Uganda.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"79.703886489821\">\n<p>A suicide bomber has struck a restaurant in the Democratic Republic of the Congo\u2019s (DRC) eastern city of Beni, killing at least five people and himself, according to officials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were five people killed in the explosion, plus the bomber, making six,\u201d mayor Narcisse Muteba Kashale told Reuters news agency on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Congo\u2019s government spokesman Patrick Muyaya said on Twitter the explosion had indeed been caused by a suicide bomber, and that security forces were investigating the incident.<\/p>\n<p>There were no immediate claims of responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLoss of human life has been reported. The security services have already been deployed and the first measures have been taken,\u201d Muyaya said on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>The AFP news agency earlier said its correspondent saw the remains of at least three bodies at the site of the blast, the In Box restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>Kashale, who is also a police colonel, said at least two of the victims were children. Wounded survivors were taken to the local hospital, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInvestigations are under way to find the perpetrators of this terrorist attack,\u201d he told The Associated Press news agency.<\/p>\n<p>Beni, near the DRC\u2019s eastern border with Uganda, has been the site of regular clashes between the army and the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), historically a Ugandan Muslim group.<\/p>\n<p>In June, three bombs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2021\/6\/28\/dr-congo-imposes-curfew-in-beni-after-weekend-bombs\">rocked<\/a> the east of the country, with authorities warning they had reports more attacks were being planned.<\/p>\n<p>In late November, the DRC and Uganda launched a joint operation against the ADF in the east of the country after Congolese troops struggled for months to quell bloody ADF attacks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least six people killed as suicide bomber strikes restaurant in Beni city near the DRC\u2019s eastern border with Uganda.A suicide bomber has struck a restaurant in the Democratic Republic of the Congo\u2019s (DRC) eastern city of Beni, killing at least five people and himself, according to officials. \u201cThere were five people killed in the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":47220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}