(Eagle News) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has sent his condolences for the lives lost in the fatal Jolo blasts that has killed at least 20 people and injured several others.
Modi was among the many world leaders who have sent letters expressing their deep condolences to Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte for the terrorist attack on a Catholic cathedral in the middle of a mass service in Jolo, Sulu in the restive south where a plebiscite for the Bangsamoro Organic Law was recently held.
The prime minister also expressed his country’s readiness to work with the Philippines to counter terrorism which he called a “global menace.”
“I wish to express my deep condolences at the loss of lives and injuries that many Filipinos sustained in the terrorist attack in Jolo last Sunday,” Prime Minister Modi wrote in a letter sent to President Duterte dated January 28.
Modi said that such “violence and terrorism have no place in democratic and pluralistic societies such as ours.”
“India condemns such acts of terrorism in the strongest terms and is ready to work with the Philippines in all possible ways to counter this global menace,” he said.
