*NEW YORK: United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres hasstrongly** respondedover deadly terrorist attack in Pakistan’s Quetta.*
*He strongly condemned yesterday’s attack in Quetta that killed at least 20people, including security personnel and children.*
According to a UN spokesman, Guterres was shocked and he strongly condemnedthis cowardly act and extended his condolences to the families of thevictims and to the government and people of Pakistan.
The United Nations expressed its fully solidarity with the government ofPakistan in its fight against terrorism and violent extremism, he added.
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At least 20 people, security personnel and children among them, were killedand 48 others wounded in a suicide attack at the Hazarganji fruit andvegetable market in Quetta on Friday morning.
The deceased included eight members of the Hazara community and soldier ofthe paramilitary Frontier Corps (FC).
