New Delhi: Indian missions in Afghanistan are
under fresh threat from terror outfits as intelligence inputs
suggest that such groups are planning new attacks.
The fresh inputs received from Indian as well as
international intelligence agencies said that terrorists may
target Indian missions in Kabul and Jalalabad, Union Home
Ministry sources said.
The inputs come days after the February 26 attack on
Indians in Afghanistan by LeT terrorists who targeted hotels,
killing seven Indians associated with developmental work in
the country, including three Major rank Army officers.
The victims in the Kabul massacre included seven Indians,
one Italian, a French filmmaker, three Afghan policemen, four
civilians and another person whose body was too dismembered to
identify.
This is the fourth attack targeted at Indians in Kabul
since July 2008 when 60 people, including four Indian embassy
officials, were killed in a massive car bomb attack on the
embassy building.
Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba, responsible for the
Mumbai attack, has been blamed by an Afghan intelligence
official for the attack last week.
Army Major injured in Kabul attack dies
An Army Major, who was injured in
the terror strike in Kabul, died at a hospital here today,
taking to seven the number of Indians killed in the attack.
Major Ritesh Roy of Army Education Corps died in the Army
Hospital Research and Referral. Earlier, two other Major-rank
army officers were killed in the attack.
Commissioned in the army in 2001, Major Roy was posted in
Kabul since March last year. His wife Captain Seema Mishra is
also an AEC officer and is currently an instructor at IMA.
They have a daughter.
An Indian team of investigators, comprising officials of
Ministries of Home and Defence, was sent to Afghanistan to
collect evidence about the group and individuals involved in
the last Friday`s attack in which 10 persons, including five
army officers, were injured.
Afghanistan has set up a five-member team to investigate
the incident which was reminiscent of 26/11 as six to eight
terrorists exploded bombs outside two hotels and then stormed
these, hunting for Indians staying there.
-PTI
