India strongly condemns attack on US Consulate in Benghazi

India has strongly condemned on Thursday the attack on US Consulate in Benghazi resulting in the death of the US Ambassador to Libya and three other embassy officials. A spokesman of India's External Affairs Ministry told the media that the country's Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai spoke to US Ambassador in New Delhi, Nancy Powell, to convey condolences over the death of the US officials in Benghazi. "We are deeply shocked at the attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi. India strongly condemns the violent acts which unfortunately resulted in the death of the US Ambassador to Libya and other officials. Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai has spoken to the US Ambassador in Delhi and conveyed our condolences at the tragic loss of life," said the Indian Ministry's spokesman. US Ambassador in Libya, Chris Stevens, and three other US embassy officials had died in Benghazi after a group of heavily armed militants launched an attack on the complex, pelting it with gunfire and rocket-propelled grenades, amid a protest by the radical Islamist group Ansar Al-Sharia against a film mocking Islam's prophet.