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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) The Afghan government's media center has raised the death toll from the massive suicide truck bombing in Kabul to 90 killed.

The center also says that 400 people are now reported to have been wounded in the attack on this morning. No group has claimed responsibility for the bombing that hit in a highly secure diplomatic area of the Afghan capital.

The media center quoted a statement from the Afghan Ulema Council, the country's top religious body that includes Muslim clerics, scholars and men of authority in religion and law, as giving the new casualty tolls.

The council strongly condemned the attack, saying that "carrying out such attacks in the holy month of Ramadan is completely against humanity."

Germany's Interior Ministry says deportation of Afghans whose asylum requests have been rejected has been temporarily suspended in the wake of an attack in Kabul that seriously damaged the German Embassy.

A flight to Kabul planned for today has been put off, and spokesman Johannes Dimroth says other deportations will be postponed for the time being.

Germany considers areas of Afghanistan, including Kabul, safe and has been regularly deporting Afghans whose asylum requests have been rejected, particularly those with criminal records.

Dimroth says the decision to postpone deportations was not due to a reassessment of the danger, but rather because the embassy in Kabul is not in a position to deal with the return of the deportees after being damaged in the attack.

He says Germany's position that deportations, particularly of convicted criminals, are necessary.

France's foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian says the French Embassy in Kabul suffered material damage in the car bombing.

Le Drian said in a statement today that French authorities have not had information on potential French casualties "at this stage" but that they're still checking.

The minister expressed his "indignation" at the "terrorist attack" in a country that "is paying a heavy toll on terrorism again." He offered his condolences to "families of the many victims" in the massive bombing.

Le Drian stressed that "France stands by Afghanistan in the fight against terrorism."

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