President attends tribute for Indians killed in Kabul

With the headlights of military trucks illuminating the area and President Pratibha Patil looking on solemnly, six tricolour-draped coffins carrying the bodies of the Indians killed in the Kabul blasts were offloaded from a special air force aircraft that flew them in New Delhi on Saturday. The president had just landed at the air force station here from Pune when she was informed of the bodies being brought from Kabul and decided to stay on to pay her tributes. The aircraft carrying the coffins and the survivors of Friday's attacks in Kabul landed at the air force station here at about 5.45 p.m. Immediately, ambulances with their red beacons flashing, drove up to the aircraft and whisked away the injured to the Army Research and Referral Hospital. Pall-bearers then brought the coffins out one-by-one and placed them on six tables, covered with white cloth, that were placed on the tarmac. A row of defence officers and government officials stood in line by the tables.

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