The Nepali Embassy in Pakistan, which concurrently looks after Afghanistan, today denied any Nepali national was killed in Friday’s terrorist attack on the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) office in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Ambassador Bharat Raj Paudyal, quoting a fellow Nepali worker in the IOM office, said at three Nepalis working as inner-security guards in IOM’s Kabul-based office, were injured in the attack. He also added that one of the injured has been discharged from hospital and that the remaining two would be discharged in a few days.
“One of them was discharged from the hospital today and the remaining two would be discharged in two to three days,” Paudyal told THT over phone from Islamabad, quoting Dhan Prasad Gurung, a Nepali working at the IOM office as security supervisor.

Earlier, international news agencies, including Associated Press and BBC had reported that at least one Nepali guard was killed and three others were injured due to a suicide car bomb attack on IOM.
Subel Bhandari, a Nepali journalist in Afghanistan, had also written on the social network site that no Nepali had been killed.

All the three were hit by shrapnel from grenades and concrete pieces during the blast.
Ambassador Paudyal said he was trying to ascertain their address in Nepal and the identity of the person who had been released from hospital.

Published on: 26 May 2013 | The Himalayan Times