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October 21, 2005
Afghanistan: Four, Including Aid Worker, Killed by Islamists
Today, it was announced that an aid worker and two senior provincial officials were killed in Afghanistan, in attacks which have been blamed on Taliban insurgents, states Reuters.
On Thursday, an employee of the Coordination of Humanitarian Assistance relief agency was killed in an ambush in Faryab province, in the northwest. His three colleagues were wounded. The governor of Faryab, Mohammad Aamir Latif, blamed Taliban guerillas.
In the southern province of Nimroz, an explosion ripped apart a car, kiling the police chief of Zaranj, the provincial capital, Nafas Khan. A colleague of Mr Khan was also killed in the blast, which was apparently caused by a roadside bomb, detonated by remote control.
In the eastern province of Kunar, an intelligence official was killed by a roadside bomb.
A spokesman for the Taliban, Mohammad Yousuf, confirmed the Zaranj blast had been carried out by the Taliban, but had no information on the aid worker's killing.
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at October 21, 2005 7:10 PM
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