Kabul: A special plane will be flown on Friday to bring back bodies of four Indian who were killed in the overnight attack of Taliban at a guest house on Wednesday.
Reports claimed that the special flight from Delhi will land at around 11 am. The bodies will be flown to Delhi, after which state government resident commissioners will make arrangements to take them to their families. Some family and friends are expected to be present in Delhi.
Sources claimed that the four Indians killed in attack have been identified as Mathew George, RK Bhatti, Satish Chandra and Martha Farrel.
Two of those killed were from Kerala, one from Chandigarh and one from Andhra Pradesh.
Martha Farrell, 56, was to return to India from Afghanistan on Saturday. An official from NGO Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA) was quoted as saying by IANS that Farrell was the spokesperson for a training programme conducted by the Aga Khan Trust.
She was in Afghanistan from May 9 and was due to return on May 16.
Army sources said Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani’s special envoy for good governance Ahmad Zia Massoud visited the attack scene in Kabul late on Wednesday night where a group of militants launched a coordinated attack.
Massoud told reporters near the Park Palace guest house that militants attacked it thinking the Indian ambassador was present in the compound.
The sources said Massoud termed it a political attack but did not elaborate further.
Bureau Report
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