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New Delhi (NVI): Terrorists today detonated a bomb near a Sikh crematorium in Kabul, a day after killing 25 people in an attack on a shrine of the minority community, according to local media reports.
A child was injured in today’s blast close to the crematorium, Pajhwok news agency of Afghanistan reported, quoting an unnamed official.
Earlier, Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar tweeted that blasts were reported in Afghanistan near the cremation site of those killed during yesterday’s terror attack on a Sikh shrine in Kabul.
“Deeply concerned at the blasts reported near the cremation site of those killed during the attack on Gurudwara Sahib in #Kabul,” he tweeted.
Deeply concerned at the blasts reported near the cremation site of those killed during the attack on Gurudwara Sahib in #Kabul.
— Dr. S. Jaishankar (@DrSJaishankar) March 26, 2020
25 people were killed and eight injured after a group of terrorists stormed a Sikh Dharamshala in Kabul yesterday. After a six-hour gun battle with Afghan special forces, all four suicide bombers were killed, Afghan media said.
India has strongly condemned the terror attack, saying such cowardly attacks on the places of religious worship of the minority community, especially at this time of COVID 19 pandemic, is “reflective of the diabolical mindset of the perpetrators and their backers”.
In a statement yesterday, the MEA also said that India stands ready to extend all possible assistance to the affected families of the Hindu and Sikh community of Afghanistan.
