Gunmen shot and killed a Briton who worked with Afghanistan's rural development ministry in a nighttime attack in downtown Kabul that followed a monthslong lull in violence in the city, police and the British embassy said Tuesday.Steven Blair MacQueen, 41, was killed at about 10:15 p.m. Monday as he drove a pickup truck in front of the main guest house for U.N. workers in Kabul and the Dutch Embassy, Gen. Sher Agha, a Kabul police commander, told The Associated Press. The British Embassy confirmed the death, and said Blair's next of kin had been informed. The motive for the shooting was unclear.
Agha said two vehicles, one of them a black landcruiser, had followed the British man's white, Toyota pickup truck then drove ahead of him and blocked his way. From inside the landcruiser, someone opened fire, killing the man, before driving away.
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