July 09, 2008	Wednesday	Rajab 5, 1429

HERAT, July 8: A bomb was found on a bus transporting 12 Indian road workers in Afghanistan on Tuesday, a day after a suicide attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul killed 41 people.

The workers, including engineers, had noticed a “suspicious package” on the bus as they were travelling to work in the south-western province of Nimroz, provincial governor Ghulam Dastagir Azad said.

They called the police who discovered it was a remote-controlled bomb, he said.

The driver of the bus was arrested for questioning. “The bomb could have been fixed on his bus without him knowing but all this will be made clear after the investigation is over,” he said.

Azad blamed Taliban militants for the attempted attack on workers for the Indian Border Road Organisation, which is working on a key road in the province’s Khashrod area.

There have been several Taliban attacks on men building the road and about 10 Indian nationals working on the project have been killed over the past few years.—AFP