MOSCOW- A suicide bombing outside the Russian Embassy in the Afghan capital of Kabul on Monday killed two members of the embassy staff in what Moscow denounced as an “unacceptable terrorist act.”
The blast went off at the entrance to the embassy’s consular section where Afghans were waiting for news about their visas, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry and the state news agency RIA Novosti.
A Russian diplomat had emerged from the building to call out the names of candidates for visas when the explosion occurred, the agency said.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast, the latest in a series of attacks since the Taliban seized power a year ago.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called the explosion “a terrorist act, absolutely unacceptable.”
He told reporters during his daily press conference call that “now the main thing that needs to be done is to get information from the ground about what happened to our diplomatic representatives.”
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