IRNA � Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman on Sunday sympathized with the Somalian people on terrorist attack in the country which claimed the lives of several people.

Bahram Qasemi offered condolences to the bereaved families of the victims.

The Iranian official condemned the cowardly attack in the Somali capital, Mogadishu.

A huge truck bomb blast in Somalia's capital killed 189 people with more than 200 injured, making it the deadliest single attack ever in the Horn of Africa nation, dispatches reported.