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Spanish Royal family, party leaders attend funeral of policemen killed in Kabul attack

Xinhua, December 16, 2015 Adjust font size:

King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia of Spain on Tuesday attended the funeral of the two Spanish policemen who were killed during a Taliban attack close to the Spanish Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan on Friday last week.

They were joined at the funeral of Jorge Garcia Tudela and Isidro Gabino Sanmartin Hernandez by Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, Socialist Party leader, Pedro Sanchez, as well as Pablo Iglesias, the leader of Podemos and Albert Rivera, from Citizens.

All of the politicians present had cancelled campaign appearances they had scheduled ahead of Sunday's general election in Spain.

The bodies of the two policemen, who had been guarding the embassy in Kabul, were brought back to the Spanish airforce base of Torrejon de Ardoz.

The aircraft, which brought the two bodies back from Kabul, also flew home the seven embassy guards who had survived last Friday's attack, after it had ferried out a replacement team on Monday.

Friday's attack had begun with the Taliban exploding a car bomb in the embassy quarter in Kabul and continued with a gun battle lasting several hours. Twelve people were killed.

Although the Spanish government insisted the attack was not directed against the embassy itself, Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz called the assault "an attack against Spain." Endit