@ShashiTharoor tweets about attacks near Indian Embassy in Kabul
October 8th, 2009 - 4:50 pm ICT by admin ( Leave a comment )By Sajal Kayan
New Delhi, Oct 8 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Shashi Tharoor, the Indian Minister of State for External Affairs expressed his condolences via Twitter, a microblogging network.
“Tragic news frm Kabul of another bomb attack near our Embassy. Indians safe (3 lightly injured) but many Afghan casualties. Our condolences”, Tharoor wrote on his twitter page @ShashiTharoor. He went on to say “India will not be intimidated by these criminal killers. We will take all steps necessary to protect Indian lives & installations in Afghstn”.
Tharoor’s usage of twitter as a tool for mass direct communication has been received well by the Indian Tweeps (Twitter people - or people on Twitter).
Earlier today, a Taliban suicide bomber exploded near the Indian embassy in Kabul Thursday, killing 12 people and injuring nearly 90 in the second such attack since July 2008. Todays blast occured at 8.27 a.m.
No Indian was killed in the devastating bombing on the busy road outside the embassy. Afghan officials said the dead were one police officer and 11 Afghan civilians, most of whom were Indian visa seekers.
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