Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed visits families of Emiratis killed in terror attack

Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, offers condolences to family of Ahmed Al Mazrouei who was killed in the terrorist attack on the Kandahar Governor’s headquarters in Afghanistan. Ryan Carter / Crown Prince Court - Abu Dhabi

Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, offers condolences to children and family of Ahmed Al Mazrouei who was killed in the terrorist attack on the Kandahar Governor’s headquarters in Afghanistan. Seen with Rashid Saeed Al Mazrouei, father of the victim (2nd R). Ryan Carter / Crown Prince Court - Abu Dhabi

Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, offers condolences to the family of Ahmed Al Mazrouei who was killed in the terrorist attack on the Kandahar Governor’s headquarters in Afghanistan. Rashed Al Mansoori / Crown Prince Court - Abu Dhabi

Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, offers condolences to the family of Ahmed Al Mazrouei who was killed in the terrorist attack on the Kandahar Governor’s headquarters in Afghanistan. Rashed Al Mansoori / Crown Prince Court - Abu Dhabi

Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, offers condolences to family of Ahmed Al Tunaiji who was killed in the terrorist attack on the Kandahar Governor’s headquarters in Afghanistan. Ryan Carter / Crown Prince Court - Abu Dhabiوعي

Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, offers condolences to family of Ahmed Al Tunaiji who was killed in the terrorist attack on the Kandahar Governor’s headquarters in Afghanistan. Ryan Carter / Crown Prince Court - Abu Dhabi

ABU DHABI // Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, paid his respects to the families of Ahmed Al Tunaiji and Ahmed Al Mazrouei on Wednesday.

The two men were among a team of five diplomats killed in a terrorist attack on the Kandahar Governor’s headquarters while on a humanitarian mission in Afghanistan.

Sheikh Mohammed extended his condolences while visiting the mourning majlises for the Al Tunaiji family in Al Rams district in Ras Al Khaimah, and the Al Mazrouei family in Al Helo district in Sharjah.

Also on Wednesday, the Afghan foreign minister offered his condolences for the five Emiratis killed in the attack last week and commended the projects they were establishing during his visit to the UAE.

Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, met Salahuddin Rabbain, the Afghan foreign minister, during a meeting in the capital, and thanked him for his condolences.

Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed, Minister of Foreign Affairs, meets with Salahuddin Rabbain, the Afghan foreign minister, in Abu Dhabi. Wam

Sheikh Abdullah said the UAE, which has a historic and consistent commitment towards providing humanitarian aid abroad, would continue its humanitarian missions in Afghanistan to assist and support its people.

Both ministers underlined the UAE and Afghanistan’s close and enduring ties, reported Wam, the state news agency.

Sheikh Abdullah highlighted the decades-old friendship and cooperation the countries shared Mr Rabbani lauded UAE’s pilot projects in Afghanistan, one of which had been launched by the Emirati diplomats on the same day of the attack.

The embassy officials had been on a humanitarian mission with the UAE Ambassador to Afghanistan, Juma Al Kaabi, to lay the cornerstone of the UAE-funded Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Orphanage the day of the attack.

The five Emiratis were among 12 people killed and 18 injured. Mr Al Kaabi was among those injured when explosives placed under a sofa went off as the Kandahar governor was entertaining a UAE delegation at his guesthouse.

Hundreds of mourners attended the funerals of four of the five Emiratis killed. The body of the fifth Emirati victim, who was at the exact spot of a bomb blast, was not recovered.