Moscow is calling on Kabul to take additional measures to fight terrorism. This was said in a Russian MFA statement issued on Friday in connection with a terrorist attack in an educational center in the Afghan capital.
"We strongly condemn the September 30 terrorist attack on an educational center in a district of the Afghan capital. According to preliminary data at least 19 people were killed and more than 27 wounded in the barbaric attack with explosive device. The fact that almost only children were among the injured is appalling," pointed out the Russian diplomatic mission.
Smolenskaya Square also called on "the current authorities to find and punish the culprits and take additional measures to combat the terrorism."
The foreign ministry stressed that they "consider such actions to be inhumane and unjustifiable."
"We express our condolences to the people of Afghanistan, the relatives and friends of the victims, we wish a speedy recovery to the injured," the ministry pointed out.
Earlier, Al Jazeera reported that the number of victims of Friday's explosion in an educational center in the west of Kabul had risen to 32, at least 40 more people were wounded. The channel's interlocutor specified that the explosion was carried out by a suicide bomber.
In recent months, a series of bombings, armed attacks and shootings targeted both supporters of the Taliban (a movement banned in Russia) and civilians in a number of provinces in Afghanistan, including the capital region. Many of these incidents were claimed by the Islamic State in Khorasan, an offshoot of the terrorist organization Islamic State, which is banned in the Russian Federation.
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Based on materials from TASS