23 June 2016: The 12 caskets containing the bodies of the Nepalese Security Guards who were killed in the Taliban attack in Kabul on Saturday were brought back in a chartered Nepal Airlines aircraft. Nepal PM K P Oli along with the other cabinet members was present at the Tribhuvan International Airport to receive the bodies.
PM Oli has led the nation for mourning of the Nepalese Security guards who were killed in the attack as well as condemnation of the incident that has taken 14 lives in the attack. These Nepalese were working as the security guards with the Canadian High Commission in Kabul.
PM also expressed his grief towards these Nepalese Guards and said that killing of the innocent human lives who harmed none was shocking and condemnable.
According to the reports, the foreign affairs ministry has chartered the aircraft arrangements for other 24 Nepalese security guards have also been brought back by the Airbus A-320 plane.
As per the sources reports that the bodies were sent for the post-mortem to the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital and later will be sent back to their respective families by helicopter at the government expense.
The Indian government has offered assistance to the Nepal government which also includes airlifting of the bodies back to Nepal yet the Nepal government preferred to send their own aircraft by taking a special permission from India, Pakistan and Afghanistan to fly their airspace.
It is witnessed that after eight years of gap, the attack has been targeted to the Nepalese labourers for the second time abroad, the first time was in the year August 2004 by the Ansar Al Sunna in Iraq and this time was the attacked by the Taliban in Kabul.
As per the report, the government has appointed the special team to Kabul that consist of three Army personnel, two from Nepal police, one from the Home Ministry, Foreign Affairs and Department of Foreign Employment consisted the team that had gone to Kabul with a special Airspace.
