Suicide bombers targeted the Indian consulate in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad on Saturday, detonating a car packed with explosives and killing nine civilians, including seven children in a nearby mosque. No Indian was hurt.
The terrorist strike came days after a security team from Delhi visited Kabul to look into reports that the ISI-backed Haqqani network was plotting to attack Indian interests there.
A Taliban spokesman immediately denied responsibility for the blast that erupted outside the Indian mission and left the mosque, several houses and shops in ruins. The Indian Embassy in Kabul has been attacked by the Haqqani network twice — in 2008 and 2009 — killing scores of people.
Citing inputs from Kabul, officials in Delhi said all three bombers were Pakistanis who were sheltered by Arab terrorists in the northeastern province of Kunar, along the Af-Pak border, for a week before the attack. The trio drove to Jalalabad on Friday night.
The terrorist strike came days after a security team from Delhi visited Kabul to look into reports that the ISI-backed Haqqani network was plotting to attack Indian interests there.
A Taliban spokesman immediately denied responsibility for the blast that erupted outside the Indian mission and left the mosque, several houses and shops in ruins. The Indian Embassy in Kabul has been attacked by the Haqqani network twice — in 2008 and 2009 — killing scores of people.
Citing inputs from Kabul, officials in Delhi said all three bombers were Pakistanis who were sheltered by Arab terrorists in the northeastern province of Kunar, along the Af-Pak border, for a week before the attack. The trio drove to Jalalabad on Friday night.
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