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Three int'l aid workers die in Afghan attack

AP, Pul-e-alam
Gunmen wielding assault rifles ambushed a US aid organisation's vehicle one province south of Kabul yesterday, killing an American-Trinidadian aid worker along with a Canadian and a British-Canadian colleague, officials said.
The three women worked for the New York-based International Rescue Committee and were attacked in Logar province while traveling to Kabul, said Abdullah Khan, the deputy counterterrorism director in Logar. The women's Afghan driver was also killed, said Khan.
Melissa Winkler, a spokeswoman for the International Rescue Committee, said the group was in the process of alerting family members and would issue a statementsoon.
Winkler said the women were a dual American-Trinidadian citizen. a dual British-Canadian citizen and a Canadian citizen. Earlier, an Afghan police official had said the women were American, Canadian and Irish.
At Logar province's Pul-e-Alam hospital, Dr. Mir Mabub Shah said all four bodies had multiple bullet wounds. Three female Afghan nurses covered the three victims in a white cloth shroud as they placed them in wooden coffins.
Abdurrahman Khan, an IRC driver, was sobbing as he loaded two of the bodies onto the back of a
truck, as a convoy of half a dozen vehicles set off for Kabul.
"They were here helping Afghan people," Khan said of the women. "They were not carrying weapons."
The attack was carried out by five men brandishing assault rifles who stepped out of a small village area and fired at the IRC vehicles, said Khan, citing an Afghan IRC employee wounded in the attack who was traveling in a second vehicle.
Khan said the women's 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 postconflict development in countries around the world, according to its Web site.
Two Afghan IRC staff members were shot and killed in Logar in July 2007 while driving to work on the National Solidarity Program, a government-led program that carries out development projects.
The IRC said in July that it was carrying out projects at reduced levels despite the deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan.