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NEW DELHI: Afghan authorities were probing whether Taliban insurgents kidnapped and executed Indian road worker MR Kutty because of his nationality, Afghanistan Ambassador Masood Khalili said on Wednesday.

"We are working on it whether he was abducted because of his nationality. At the moment it appears they just wanted the projects to stop," he told reporters on the sidelines of an award ceremony.

Kutty, whose decapitated body was found on Wednesday, was abducted from his car along with an Afghan driver and two guards in Afghanistan's Nimroz on Saturday.

While the Indian was executed, his Afghan driver was released.

"Indians, who make up a tiny minority in Afghanistan, enjoy the trust and respect of Afghan people," Khalili said and called Kutty's killing a terrorist act.

However, the Ambassador rejected suggestions that Afghan authorities had reacted slowly to the Indian's abduction...

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