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Gunmen attack UN offices in Kandahar
Gunmen attacked the office of the United Nations refugee agency here Monday, throwing a grenade and firing shots but causing no injuries, on a violent day that also saw U.S. forces engage in a firefight and bombard a secret drug laboratory. The attack on the UN office shortly after 9 p.m., was just the latest in a series of assaults on the world body and other aid organizations that have made much of the south and east of the country a no-go area for development workers. "We were sitting outside the gate when the car pulled up," said Abdul Rehman, a security guard at the office of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees in Kandahar, once the stronghold of the Taliban. "First they threw the grenade and then opened fire." The attackers, seated in a car, sped away when police and security staff who had been sitting in a nearby tent rushed to the scene and returned fire, Rehman said. Manoel de Almeida e Silva, a UN spokesman in Kabul, confirmed the guardâs account of the attack, though he said it was unclear if fire was returned. "There were no victims," he said. "There was no one in the office at the time."Posted by: Dan Darling 2004-01-06 |
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