PUL-E-ALAM, Afghanistan - A militant ambush of a U.S. aid organization's vehicle Wednesday killed an American aid worker along with a British-Canadian and a Trinidadian colleague, officials said.
The three women who worked for the New York-based International Rescue Committee were attacked in Logar, one province south of Kabul, said Abdullah Khan, the deputy counterterrorism director in Logar. The women's Afghan driver was also killed, said Khan. At Logar province's Pul-e-Alam hospital, Dr. Mir Mabub Shah said all four bodies had multiple bullet wounds.
The attack was carried out by five gunmen brandishing assault rifles who stepped out of a small village area and fired at the IRC vehicles on the main road, said Khan, citing an Afghan who was also wounded in the attack. Khan said the IRC vehicle, a white SUV, was riddled with hundreds of bullets. It had stickers on the side of the vehicle saying IRC. The women were traveling from the eastern city of Gardez to Kabul when they were attacked, he said.
The International Rescue Committee provides emergency relief, rehabilitation, protection of human rights and post-conflict development in countries around the world, according to its Web site. |