“One click may sometimes help find out this missing kid. So please share this.” This was one of the four posts of Raveendran Parambath, a 55-year-old ex-serviceman from Vadakara, near here, in Kerala on Facebook just hours before he fell victim to a blast in Kabul on Tuesday. In all his recent posts, Raveendran showed the spirit of a Good Samaritan.
He and Ponnappan, another ex-serviceman from Kottayam in Kerala, were among the five men killed in a suicide blast in Kabul on Tuesday, for which the Taliban has claimed responsibility.
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The victims were working as security staff in an American company, DynCorp International, at Camp Gibson at the Kabul International Airport, a high-risk posting at the entry check post (ECP) allegedly handed out to workers from developing countries. These personnel, known as the force protection group, were standing unarmed, a colleague of Raveendran from Kottayam, who is still in Kabul, told The Hindu in an Internet conversation on Thursday. “ECPs are places that the extremists target first during their attacks,” he said. .
On Thursday, Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy met Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj and sought her intervention to help Keralites caught in conflict zones.
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