DUBAI, Nov. 1 (Xinhua) -- The United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Wednesday condemned the "terrorist attack" in the Manhattan neighborhood of New York City that killed eight people and injured 12 others, the official UAE state news agency WAM reported.
The UAE Foreign Ministry stressed in a statement "the firm and rejecting position of the UAE against various forms of violence and terrorism targeting all without distinction between religion and race and whatever its origin and origin," the report said.
The statement also underlined "the UAE's solidarity with the U. S. government in the face of violence and extremism."
Eight people were killed and a dozen more injured after a truck plowed into pedestrians near the World Trade Center in New York City, an incident called "a particularly cowardly act of terror" by NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio.
