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Roundup: Multiple blasts in Kabul widely condemned

Xinhua, August 8, 2015 Adjust font size:

The three deadly bombings which rocked Afghanistan fortified capital Kabul city on Friday and claimed scores of lives, mostly civilians, have been widely condemned at home and abroad.

In the first deadly violent bombing, an explosive-laden truck went off in a market in Shah Shahid locality in the eastern part of Kabul city at 01:00 a.m. Friday leaving 15 civilians dead and more than 400 others injured, according to locals.

However, Kabul police chief Abdul Rahman Rahimi put the number of dead bodies at eight.

The deadly blast had also destroyed scores of houses and shops worth millions of U.S. dollars.

On the same day, a suicide bomber wearing police uniform blew himself up among students of Police Academy at around 07:30 p.m. local time leaving 20 dead and 10 others injured, a police officer who declined to be identified told Xinhua said at the site of the blast.

However, Interior Ministry in a statement released here Saturday afternoon confirmed that more than"40 students and civilians"were killed and injured in suicide attack against police academy on Friday.

The statement, nevertheless, didn't give exact figure of casualties.

In the third deadly attack which happened in Qasaba locality had claimed nine lives including a foreign soldier, a statement of the NATO-led Resolute Support released here Saturday confirmed.

The foreign trooper is American and the remaining eight victims are Afghans, according to Afghan sources.

Afghans from all walks of life have termed the multiple bombings as"coward terrorist attacks"which were strongly condemned.

Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani and Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah after visiting the injured people in hospitals blamed the enemies of Afghanistan for organizing the deadly offensives and strongly condemned the attacks.

U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan has also condemned attack terrorist attack in Kabul, noting targeting civilians by terrorists demonstrates they disrespect human rights.

The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has also condemned terrorist attack in Kabul and called for immediate ban on weapons which have been used to kill and maim indiscriminately.

Civilians often bear the brunt of war in Afghanistan as 1,592 civilians had been killed and 3,329 others injured in the first half month of 2015, UNAMA said in a report released recently. Endi