CCTV footage released on Thursday a day after the terror attack at the Indian consulate in the Afghan city of Jalalabad showed a suicide bomber blowing himself up outside the mission.
The footage showed a big explosion near the gate of the consulate just after a man reached the spot.
Six terrorists attacked the Indian consulate on Wednesday killing three people and injuring 19 more before they were gunned down by security forces. The dead included an Afghan National Police personnel and two civilians, but all Indians at the mission escaped unhurt.
One of the attackers blew himself up in front of the consulate while the other blew himself up along with the car in which the group reached the spot. The other four were killed by security forces in a gunbattle which lasted more than half an hour.
Afghan officials said all the terrorists were killed before they breached the security at the building. Doors and windows of the chancery were shattered and at least eight cars were destroyed.
The attack is fourth in the series of terror strikes on the Indian Consulate in Jalalabad. It was attacked twice by hand grenades in 2007 and in 2013, it was attacked by three suicide bombers. In 2015, an attack on it was thwarted by the Afghan security forces.
Two months ago, heavily-armed terrorists carried out an attack on the Indian mission in Mazar-e-Sharif which lasted for over 25 hours with all the attackers who attempted to storm the building getting killed by the Afghan forces.
Soon after that, also in January, Islamic State jihadists claimed responsibility for a deadly gun and bomb siege targeting the nearby Pakistani consulate in Jalalabad.
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