New Delhi: An Indian engineer was killed and four other Indians were injured in a suicide attack on their convoy in Afghanistan's southwestern province of Nimroz on Thursday.
Dev Kumar, an engineer with the Border Roads Organisation, died when a bomber blew himself up before a convoy carrying BRO personnel engaged in the construction of the Zaranj-Delaram highway.
This is the third attack on Indians constructing the highway project in six months. On January 2, a Taliban suicide bomber targeted a BRO convoy in the same Nimroz province, killing two ITBP personnel and injuring four others guarding them.
Suspected Taliban carried out another attack on the Indian construction workers on April 12, killing two BRO personnel and injuring five.
Nearly 400 BRO personnel are engaged in construction of the crucial 218-km highway between Zaranj and Delaram in Afghanistan as part of India's assistance programme for reconstruction of the war-torn country.
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