Extremists bomb Indian embassy in Kabul: 41 killed and 141 injured

Four Indians, including two diplomats and two security personnel, were among 44 killed when a suicide bomber rammed into the Indian Embassy gate in Kabul.

Mehta, Rao, two ITBP personnel Ajai Pathania and Roop Singh and an India–origin Afghan were the five embassy staff killed in the bombing, suspected to be maneuvered by Taliban extremists.

The attack has also left 140 people injured, with most of the victims being visa seekers.

While Prime Minister Manmohan Singh who is in Japan for the G–8 Summit strongly condemned the attack, Afghan's Interior ministry spokesman Abdul H Ashiq confirmed that Indian embassy was the exact target and this incident in no way, will dampen its relationship with India.

The embassy attack was the sixth suicide bombing in Kabul this year. Insurgent violence has killed more than 2,200 people in the country, in 2008.

US State Department, spokesman Gallegos said the United States was working with all the governments in the region to end terrorism and “try to allow the people to live in peace and in a situation where they continue to develop themselves, their country, and become a bigger part of the world economy.”

Mr. Gallegos strongly asserted democracy in Pakistan would be good for the rest of the region.

“We continue to work with the Pakistani government to fight our common enemy, which is these terrorist extremists who are willing to kill Muslims, Christians, anybody who gets in the way of the path, which is what they seek, which is instability and chaos so that they can prosper under that realm,” he said.

World leaders and global capitals have condemned the attack, one of the deadliest attacks in the Afghan capital since the fall of the Taliban in 2001.