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Three ITBP personnel injured in suicide attack in Kabul: FS
New Delhi, Oct 8 (PTI) Three ITBP (Indo-Tibetan border
Police) personnel were "slightly injured" in a suicide attack
directed at the Indian embassy in Kabul early Thursday,
Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao said here.
"The blast occurred at 8.27 Kabul time. All the personnel
inside the embassy at the time of the blast are safe. Three of
our personnel from the ITBP, who were guarding the perimeter
wall of the embassy, have been slightly injured from the
shrapnel from the bomb blast but there has been no loss of
life," Rao said.
"The blast was directed at the embassy because the
suicide bomber came up to the outside perimeter wall of the
Indian embassy with a car loaded with explosives, obviously
with the aim of targeting the embassy," she said, when asked
if the attack was aimed towards the Indian mission.
Rao said she had already spoken to Ambassador Jayant
Prasad, who has informed her that all the members of the
embassy are safe.
She said the intensity of the blast was "more or less
the same" as the July 2008 attack on the mission in which four
Indians, including a senior IFS officer and a Brigadier Rank
defence attache, were killed. (MORE) PTI
Police) personnel were "slightly injured" in a suicide attack
directed at the Indian embassy in Kabul early Thursday,
Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao said here.
"The blast occurred at 8.27 Kabul time. All the personnel
inside the embassy at the time of the blast are safe. Three of
our personnel from the ITBP, who were guarding the perimeter
wall of the embassy, have been slightly injured from the
shrapnel from the bomb blast but there has been no loss of
life," Rao said.
"The blast was directed at the embassy because the
suicide bomber came up to the outside perimeter wall of the
Indian embassy with a car loaded with explosives, obviously
with the aim of targeting the embassy," she said, when asked
if the attack was aimed towards the Indian mission.
Rao said she had already spoken to Ambassador Jayant
Prasad, who has informed her that all the members of the
embassy are safe.
She said the intensity of the blast was "more or less
the same" as the July 2008 attack on the mission in which four
Indians, including a senior IFS officer and a Brigadier Rank
defence attache, were killed. (MORE) PTI