 Unidentified gunmen killed five Afghan health workers at a remote clinic in the northwestern province of Badghis, Reuters reported on Monday.
| Esquimoux? Lapplanders? Samoans? |
"Five Health Ministry workers including nurses, doctors and a driver were killed when gunmen fired at them in their clinic last night," said the governor, Enayatullah Enayat. "Only enemies of Afghanistan would resort to this type of act," he said.
| Doctors and nurses, of course, are much less likely to be armed and able to fight back... |
Five workers of the Medecins Sans Frontieres medical aid group, three foreigners and two Afghans, were killed in an ambush in Badghis in 2004. Officials said at the time Taliban insurgents were responsible. A Health Ministry official blamed terrorists. "It's a terrorist attack to intimidate people working with the government side," said the official, Abdullah Fahim. The attackers also set fire to the clinic, he said. |