PTI
 
New Delhi, Feb 9: The Indian national killed in a bomb blast by Taliban in Afghanistan on Wednesday has been identified as K Bharath Kumar, a project engineer working with an American construction company, and efforts are on to retrieve his body from the western province of the country.

The second Indian to be killed in terror violence by the Taliban in Afghanistan in two months, Kumar was working on construction of a highway between Kandahar and Heart provinces, official sources said in New Delhi.

He was an employee of US firm Louis Berger for which he had been working since August 15 last year, they said.

Kumar was among four killed in a bomb blast for which Taliban has claimed responsibility. The four, including a Turkish national, a Nepalese guard and a local, were killed when a remote-controlled mine blew up their vehicle in Farah province.

In view of this, New Delhi feels that it was an attack against a US establishment and not an Indian one, irrespective of the fact that he hailed from this country.

Indian Embassy in Kabul was making efforts to retrieve the body from the site of the incident.

In November last year, Border Roads Organization driver M R Kutty was abducted with two locals by Taliban and was killed two days later.