Afghanistan: senior UN official ‘shocked and saddened’ by deadly bus bombing

The senior United Nations envoy in Afghanistan today sharply condemned the deadly bus bombing that killed more than 10 people in the southern city of Kandahar and called on the authorities to do everything possible to bring those responsible to justice.

“There can be no justification for such a bloody attack against innocent civilians who were simply travelling to work,” Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s Special Representative to Afghanistan Tom Koenigs said in a statement.

“I am shocked and saddened,” he added, expressing his condolences to the families of the dead and to others who were wounded.

“I urge the authorities to do everything in their power to bring the perpetrators to justice swiftly.”