| Five aid workers, including three foreigners, were killed on Wednesday when gunmen opened fire on their car in the northwestern Afghan province of Badghis, the worst attack on the aid community since the fall of the Taliban. Amir Shah Nayebzada, police chief of Badghis, said he suspected remnants of the ousted militant Islamic regime were behind the killing, although Taliban insurgency has been mainly concentrated in the south and east of the country. "This horrific incident happened just before dusk," he told Reuters. "It seems to be a politically motivated act, most probably carried out by Taliban fighters, for we see no reason why other people would do it. "The Taliban just want to destabilize the country ahead of the elections." Badghis governor Azizullah Afzali said the five employees of the medical aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) were leaving their office in a vehicle near the provincial capital of Qalaye Naw when unidentified gunmen opened fire. He said that two Afghan men, a Belgian woman, a Dutch man and a Swiss man were killed. A spokesman for MSF in Kabul said a car carrying five employees was involved in an incident, but he declined to give details of what happened and the condition of those in the vehicle. |