Bodies of 12 Nepalese guards killed in Kabul return home

Oli said the killing of innocent human lives who harmed none was “shocking” and condemnable.

Another 24 Nepalese workers were also brought back in the Airbus A-320 plane that the Foreign Affairs Ministry had chartered for the purpose.

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Two of the wounded who were part of the security team working for Canadian mission were from Dehradun.

Official sources said that the bodies, that were sent to the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital for postmortem, would be sent to the respective families by helicopter at government expense.

Although India had offered Nepal that it would to do whatever needed, including airlifting of the bodies back home, but the government of Nepal chose to send its own aircraft taking special permission from India, Pakistan and Afghanistan to fly their airspace.

This is the second time in a gap of eight years that Nepalese labours were targeted abroad — first in Iraq in August 2004 by Ansar Al Sunna, and this time by the Taliban in Kabul on Saturday.

Three army personnel, two from Nepal Police, and one each from the Ministry of Home, Foreign Affairs and Department of Foreign Employment consisted the team that had gone to Kabul in the special aircraft.

A large number of Nepalese people are reportedly working in Afghanistan, and while the government claims that permits are being issued to work only in “green zones” (areas of lesser threat), clandestine channels reportedly have been drafting a large number of youths, mostly retired security personnel, for Kabul and other parts of the country.