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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres (Source: REUTERS / File)
UN chief Antonio Guterres strongly condemned the suicide bombing perpetrated in the city of Jalalabad in Afghanistan, which killed 19 people, mostly Sikhs and Hindus, claiming that any attack against civilians is unjustifiable. The UN Secretary-General has expressed his condolences to the families of the victims and urged all parties to respect their obligation to protect civilians, including minority communities.
"The majority of the victims belong to the small Sikhs and Hindus of Afghanistan's community.The Secretary-General extends his deepest condolences to the families of the victims and wishes a speedy recovery to the wounded," said the chief of the UN in a statement issued by his spokesperson
. He said that a suicide bomber of the Islamic State had targeted a convoy of Sikhs and Hindus en route to meet Afghan President Ashraf Ghani in Jalalabad City on Sunday
According to reports, 19 people were killed during the attack and 17 of them belonged to the Sikh and Hindu minority communities.
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Avtar Singh Khalsa, a long-time leader from the Sikh community that had planned to run in the parliamentary elections scheduled for October, was also killed in the attack
. The members of the Security Council reaffirmed that terrorism in all its forms and manifestations is one of the most serious threats to international peace. The Security Council condemned the terrorist attack "hateful and cowardly" which the terrorist group claimed responsibility. The members of the Security Council stressed the need to hold perpetrators, organizers, financiers and sponsors of these reprehensible acts of terrorism accountable and to bring them to justice and urged all States to cooperate actively with the Government of Afghanistan. 15 also reaffirmed that any act of terrorism is criminal and unjustifiable, irrespective of its motivation, wherever, whenever and by whomever.
The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) condemned the attack of July 1 and expressed its "The perpetrators of this appalling crime must be brought to justice," said Ingrid Hayden, Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan.
The United Nations in Afghanistan has expressed its condolences to the relatives of those killed and wish a speedy and complete recovery to the wounded.
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On Tuesday, one of the many missiles fired at Jalalabad struck Najmuljihad High School with other projectiles landing nearby. There was no report of victims. UNAMA is also concerned about recent incidents affecting health facilities.
Last month, a mortar hit a hospital and a doctor in the Andar District Hospital, in Ghazni Province. were killed and several other civilians, mainly women and children, were injured during an attack by Afghan National Army helicopter in Pashtun Kot district.
The attack reportedly targeted Taliban fighters in a clinic where civilian patients were injured. The United Nations emphasizes that all parties to the conflict must at all times respect their obligations to protect civilians and reiterates its call to immediately stop targeting civilians and civilian objects, including schools and health facilities, in accordance with to the law. international humanitarian law
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