UN Chief calls deadly Kabul restaurant attack as "totally unacceptable"
Reuters
2014-01-18
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United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, condemned on Saturday the attack on a restaurant in Kabul, Afghanistan in the strongest terms possible.
Up to 21 people, mostly foreigners, were killed on Friday when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside the popular Lebanese restaurant in the Afghan capital, police said. Four UN staff were among those killed.
"This is another sad moment for the United Nations, where our distinguished four colleagues have been killed by terrorist attack in Kabul," he said.
Gunmen burst into the Lebanese restaurant spraying diners with bullets after the bomber blew himself up near the entrance around 7:30 p.m. local time on Friday, just as people had sat down for dinner.
Islamist Taliban insurgents claimed responsibility for the attack in the upscale Wazir Akbar Khan district, which hosts many embassies and restaurants catering to expatriates.
"On many occasions I have condemned in the
United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, condemned on Saturday the attack on a restaurant in Kabul, Afghanistan in the strongest terms possible.
Up to 21 people, mostly foreigners, were killed on Friday when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside the popular Lebanese restaurant in the Afghan capital, police said. Four UN staff were among those killed.
"This is another sad moment for the United Nations, where our distinguished four colleagues have been killed by terrorist attack in Kabul," he said.
Gunmen burst into the Lebanese restaurant spraying diners with bullets after the bomber blew himself up near the entrance around 7:30 p.m. local time on Friday, just as people had sat down for dinner.
Islamist Taliban insurgents claimed responsibility for the attack in the upscale Wazir Akbar Khan district, which hosts many embassies and restaurants catering to expatriates.
"On many occasions I have condemned in the
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