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MOSCOW, July 26. /TASS/. The latest developments across the globe testify to growing terrorist threats, Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev said on Tuesday, in the wake of a Saturday terrorist attack in the capital of Afghanistan.
Meeting with Afghan president’s national security adviser, Mohammad Hanif Atmar, Patrushev expressed deep condolences over a recent terrorist attack in Kabul.
"The secretary of the Russian Security Council marked that the latest developments testify to a growing threat of terrorism," the council’s press service said.
According to latest reports, at least 64 people were killed and 236 wounded when a huge blast rocked a mass demonstration in Kabul on Saturday, July 23. The attack was claimed by Islamic State.