RIYADH: Saudi Arabia condemned the deadly terrorist bombing that took place in Afghanistan's Kandahar province, a Foreign Ministry statement said early Friday.
The Afghan Taliban authorities announced on Thursday that a suicide bombing, claimed by ISIS, killed three people, while a hospital source said that the death toll reached 20 people.
The explosion, which occurred around eight in the morning (0330 GMT), targeted a group of people who were waiting outside the new Kabul Bank branch in the center of Kandahar city in the southern province of the same name.
The Regional Information Department said that three people were killed and 12 wounded, but a source in a major hospital in the southern city said the toll was much higher.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs reiterated the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s categorical rejection of these terrorist acts, and its stand with the Afghan people against all forms of violence, extremism and terrorism.
The statement concluded that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia “offered its condolences to the families of the victims and the Afghan people, and wished the wounded a speedy recovery.”
The Mecca-based Muslim World League issued a statement on Friday denouncing the attack.
