Publication Date:
Wed, 2005-11-23 03:00
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, 23 November 2005 — Taleban guerrillas have killed an Indian road engineer after his company failed to meet an ultimatum to cease operations in Afghanistan, a spokesman for the militants said yesterday.
P.M. Kutty was shot dead on the orders of the Taleban’s council at 6 p.m., after a deadline passed for his company to pull out of Afghanistan, Qari Mohammad Yousuf told Reuters. “Since the Indian company did not listen or reply to our response, we killed the Indian engineer,” Yousuf said by satellite phone from an undisclosed location.
Kutty, an engineer with state-run Border Roads Organization, was abducted from his car in the southern province of Nimrozon Saturday along with his local driver and two guards.
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