Police detained five suspects on Friday in connection with the killing of a German aid worker in northern Afghanistan, said officials. The five men were detained this morning in the province of Sari Pul, where the victim worked for aid group German Agro Action and was shot dead on Thursday, said police spokesman Zemrai Bashary. He gave no further details. Two gunmen killed the aid worker and robbed his three Afghan colleagues after stopping their two vehicles near the village of Mirza Wolang in Sayyad district, said deputy the provincial governor, Qamarudin Shikeb. “They took them out of their cars, searched and robbed the Afghans and took the German a short distance away, killing him with two bullets,” said Shikeb.
A spokeswoman for Bonn-based German Agro Action confirmed the death, but said the organisation was still working to get more details. “We don’t know anything yet except that this has happened,” said spokeswoman Simone Pott. She declined to release the name of the dead man. |