India deplores Kabul terror attack

India on Saturday strongly condemned the terror attack in Afghanistan's capital Kabul that claimed over 100 lives.

"India strongly condemns the barbaric and dastardly terrorist attacks in Kabul today that targeted innocent civilians and the wounded under treatment," the External Affairs Mnistry said in a statement.

Stating that this follows the cowardly terror attack on the children and civilians in Jalalabad on January 24, the statement said: "There can be no justification for such reprehensible attacks. The perpetrators of these attacks and their supporters should be brought to justice."

Over 100 people were killed and over nearly 200 others injured when a Taliban suicide bomber exploded an ambulance laden with explosives near Sidarat Square in central Kabul where several government offices are located.

--IANS

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