Bodies of six Indians killed in Kabul brought back

An Afghan security officer stands guard as firemen inspect the debrist at the site of a blast in the Shar-e Naw area in the heart of the capital Kabul on February 26, 2010. AFP

The special plane carrying six coffins draped in the national tricolour landed at the Palam air base, behind the domestic airport, around 6 p.m. Some of the injured were also flown back from Kabul to New Delhi.The injured were taken to the Army's Research and Referral hospital here.  

President Pratibha Patil and Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao attended the wreath-laying ceremony. All the dead were given military honours. 

Seventeen people, including six Indians, were killed when Taliban bombers attacked a hotel and three more buildings in the heart of the Afghan capital on  Friday.