WORK is underway on a restaurant that will help raise cash for the victims of suicide bombers in Afghanistan.

Peter Styles said work was on schedule for transforming the Sauce Factory in London Road, Worcester into an Indian and Afghan restaurant.

Mr Styles, aged 46, of Henwick Road, Worcester, still wants to send the profits to people injured at the Indian Embassy bomb blast in Kabul in Afghanistan.

He was horrified after he came across the aftermath of the explosion which killed 41 and injured 141 people.

Now Mr Styles wants to send cash to help the victims of suicide bombers and hopes the fund will help pay for prosthetic limbs for children and help improve their education.

Mr Styles, who has just sent £4,000 to help complete a mosque in Afghanistan, said: “Work is ongoing, mainly refurbishment and decoration and work on an open kitchen.

“I’m intending to give away the profit I make, over the cost of the wages I need to pay my staff. It’s slowgoing, but now the tenant has moved out, we can open in October.”

Mr Styles, who also owns the Spice Merchants in Gregory Mill Street, Barbourne, Worcester, hopes his staff can also bring their expertise to help his new restaurant.

Six luxury flats are also planned for the site next door to the Sauce Factory, which planners at Worcester City Council approved in July, although Mr Styles in future may consider demolishing the site to make way for further development.

The pub known as the Sauce Factory closed on Sunday, July 6. The redevelopment of the site will also involve the removal of a controversial mobile telephone mast. The new flats will have moss roofs to make them more environmentally friendly.

The new restaurant is scheduled to open in October.