MOSCOW, January 18 (RIA Novosti) – One Russian national working for the United Nations in Afghanistan was among those killed in a Friday suicide bombing in Kabul, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Saturday.
A total of 21 people were killed in the incident on Friday evening when a suicide bomber and several gunmen attacked a Lebanese restaurant popular with foreigners in the heavily protected center of the Afghan capital.
One of the dead was a Russian who was working for the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said in a statement.
The head of the International Monetary Fund in Afghanistan and other UN officials were amongst the dead, which reportedly also included Afghan, US, British, Canadian and Lebanese nationals.
“Unfortunately this event confirms the growing scale of the terrorist threat in Afghanistan that demands the continuing unity of the international community,” Lukashevich said.
