Islamabad, Oct. 11: Two Indians were killed in a missile attack launched by the Taliban on an Indian NGO’s office situated near a US airbase in Afghanistan’s Kunar province, a media report said on Monday.
Qari Omar Haqqani, a spokesperson for the Afghan Taliban, told reporters from an undisclosed location that the outfit had attacked the office of the Indian NGO with missiles in which three people, including two Indian workers, were killed, Pakistani daily The News International reported.
The nationality of the third person who died in the attack is yet to be ascertained.
Haqqani did not name the NGO. He said that the Taliban also fired missiles at a nearby US airbase, injuring seven soldiers of the Afghan National Army. At least 10 missiles were fired at the two places, he said.
Taliban militants had targeted Indian nationals on earlier occasions too. The outfit carried out suicide attacks at two hotels in Kabul in February, killing at least nine Indians, including two Majors of the Indian Army.