By IRNA,
Berlin : Germany’s Foreign Ministry here Monday condemned the bombing outside the Danish embassy in Pakistan believed to have claimed at least eight lives and injured two dozens.
“We are appalled by the attack which we condemn in the strongest terms,” deputy foreign ministry spokesman Andreas Peschke told journalists in Berlin.
He expressed his country’s sympathies for the family members of the victims.
At least eight people, among them two policemen and a foreigner, were killed and around two dozen others were wounded in an apparent suicide car bombing at the main entrance of the Danish embassy in Pakistan’s capital Monday afternoon, Pakistani officials said.
The blast partially damaged the diplomatic mission’s building and a neighboring office of the United Nations Development Programme in an upscale Islamabad neighborhood.
In other related news, Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Moller on Monday also condemned the embassy blast.
Moller, who has called a special sessions of cabinet ministers, said the bombing was “completely unacceptable.”
The minister told Danish television that there were “fanatics and terrorists out there and we are doing what we can to protect ourselves.”
The Danish Foreign Ministry issued also a travel alert for Pakistan Monday.
The Danish diplomatic mission has been closed until further notice, the Foreign Ministry in Copenhagen announced.