Indian among 3 foreigners abducted and killed in Kabul

kabul — Afghan police in Kabul on Thursday recovered the bodies of three foreign nationals who they said had been abducted and killed, in the latest incident targeting foreigners in the war-torn capital.

“At this stage we think it is a terrorist incident,” a police spokesman Hashmat Stanikzai said, describing the incident as an abduction.

No group has so far claimed responsibility for the killings.

A spokesman from the interior ministry also confirmed the incident, saying the victims were from India, Macedonia and Malaysia. The three men were working for a logistics company in the capital.

The incident happened after the group left their office with a car and driver on Thursday.

Just over an hour later their bodies were found in what appeared to be a different car by authorities in the rural outskirts of Kabul. “They had been shot inside the car,” said Bahar Mehr with the interior ministry.

Kabul is plagued by criminal gangs who stage abductions for ransom, often targeting foreigners and wealthy locals, and sometimes hand them over to insurgent groups.

The Indian government on Thursday expressed “deep anguish” at the killing of the Indian national. “The government condemns this incident in the strongest terms,” he said —