The UN Security Council Thursday strongly condemned the double suicide bombings in the northeastern Pakistani town of Wah Cantt, which caused a large number of deaths and injuries.

In a statement read by its president for August, Jan Grauls of Belgium, the council expressed deep sympathies and condolences to the victims of that heinous act, as well as to their families and the people and government of Pakistan.

(Xinhua News Agency August 22, 2008)