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The Indian consulate in Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif was attacked on Sunday night by unidentified gunmen when they tried to storm the building.
An Indian official said all consulate personnel at the are safe, as explosions and gunfire rang out at the compound.
“Everybody is safe,” B Sarkar, Consul General at the consulate said. The mission in the northern Afghan city is manned by three Indian personnel.
Sarkar said the shooting lasted for 20 minutes. “They shot from some adjacent building but nobody could enter the consulate.
An unidentified Indian consulate official was quoted by AFP as saying, “We are being attacked. Fighting is going on.”
There was no immediate comment from the Ministry of External Affairs in Delhi, which said further details are awaited.
Sunday’s strike is yet another attack over Indian assets in war-torn Afghanistan. The attack took place even as the encounter by the security forces with Pakistani terrorists who attacked IAF base in Pathankot in Punjab on Saturday continued for the second day.
No group claimed responsibility for the attack which came just days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi was in Afghan capital of Kabul on a brief visit on December 25 during which he inaugurated the new building for Afghan Parliament built by India at a cost of 90 million USD.
Indian consulate attacked in Mazar-e-Sharif in Afghanistan
An Indian official said all consulate personnel at the are safe, as explosions and gunfire rang out at the compound.
“Everybody is safe,” B Sarkar, Consul General at the consulate said. The mission in the northern Afghan city is manned by three Indian personnel.
Sarkar said the shooting lasted for 20 minutes. “They shot from some adjacent building but nobody could enter the consulate.
An unidentified Indian consulate official was quoted by AFP as saying, “We are being attacked. Fighting is going on.”
There was no immediate comment from the Ministry of External Affairs in Delhi, which said further details are awaited.
Sunday’s strike is yet another attack over Indian assets in war-torn Afghanistan. The attack took place even as the encounter by the security forces with Pakistani terrorists who attacked IAF base in Pathankot in Punjab on Saturday continued for the second day.
No group claimed responsibility for the attack which came just days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi was in Afghan capital of Kabul on a brief visit on December 25 during which he inaugurated the new building for Afghan Parliament built by India at a cost of 90 million USD.
Indian consulate attacked in Mazar-e-Sharif in Afghanistan
