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Gunmen kill woman aid worker in Kabul
Unknown gunmen killed a foreign woman working for an aid agency in the Afghan capital early on Monday, officials said. The woman was from South Africa, an intelligence official said, but other officials said they were unable to confirm her nationality. Two men on a motorbike shot the woman in a southern district of Kabul, the private Tolo TV station said.
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- Published: 10:46 October 20, 2008
Kabul: Unknown gunmen killed a foreign woman working for an aid agency in the Afghan capital early on Monday, officials said. The woman was from South Africa, an intelligence official said, but other officials said they were unable to confirm her nationality.
Two men on a motorbike shot the woman in a southern district of Kabul, the private Tolo TV station said.
Taliban insurgents have increasingly targeted aid workers this year in their campaign to spread an atmosphere of fear and undermine support for the Western-backed Afghan government.
Taliban insurgents killed three female aid workers and their Afghan driver in an ambush just outside Kabul in August, the bloodiest single attack on foreign humanitarian workers in Afghanistan in recent years.
Rising violence has already forced aid agencies to restrict humanitarian work at a time when drought and high prices are putting more people under pressure.
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