KABUL, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) -- The Afghan government was criticized for failing to ensure the security in the country after more than three dozen people, mostly civilians, lost their lives in terrorist attacks that shocked Afghan capital Kabul and Kandahar, the major city in the south of the insurgency-hit Afghanistan on Tuesday.
Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has strongly denounced the terror attacks and said that the Taliban by committing terrorist attacks once again claimed the lives of innocent civilians including women and demonstrated their enmity with Afghans and humanity.
In Kabul's two suicide bombings for which Taliban militants have claimed responsibility, 28 people including 24 civilians and four police personnel had been killed and more than 60 others sustained injuries, the Interior Ministry confirmed in a statement released here on Wednesday.
According to the statement, a terrorist blew himself up Tuesday afternoon next to a building where sub-offices of the country's parliament was located and when people gathered to rescue the affected persons, the second suicide bomber detonated his suicide vest, killing himself and several others on the spot.
Immediately after the twin deadly bombings, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid claimed responsibility saying the armed militant group targeted personnel of intelligence agency inflicting casualties.
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