KANDAHAR: Gunmen robbed and shot dead four Afghan men working for an Indian road construction company in southern Afghanistan, a provincial government spokesman said on Sunday. The men were killed on Saturday in a district of Kandahar province. It was too early to say if the Taliban were behind the attack in Maiwand district, Kandahar government spokesman Daud Ahmadi said. "We don't know who the attackers were affiliated to," he told AFP.
The killers stole $80,000 and a four-wheel-drive vehicle the men had been travelling in, Ahmadi said. A purported Taliban spokesman was quoted in an Indian magazine last month warning Indians to wind up their construction projects in Afghanistan and leave the country. The statement was issued after Taliban militants abducted and killed an Indian engineer in late April in southern Zabul province. His headless body was found two days after he was captured. "We want all Indians to leave Afghanistan and shut down their projects here," Taliban spokesman Mohammed Hanif was quoted saying in an interview with The Outlook news magazine. |