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British worker shot dead in Afghanistan
(Agencies)
Updated: 2005-03-08 17:13
Gunmen shot and killed a Briton who worked with Afghanistan's development
ministry in a nighttime attack in downtown Kabul, police said Tuesday.
Two vehicles, one of them a black landcruiser, followed the British man's
pickup truck then drove ahead of him and blocked his way, Gen. Sher Agha, a
Kabul police commander, said.
An
Afghan worker sweeps a road in front of shelled buildings in Kabul. A
British man working as an advisor to the Afghan government has been shot
dead in a drive-by attack in the embassy district of the capital Kabul.
[AFP/File] | From inside the landcruiser, an unidentified gunman opened fire, killing the
man, before driving away, he said.
The attack happened about 10.15 p.m. Monday in front of the main guest house
for U.N. workers in Kabul and the Dutch Embassy, he said. Agha did not name the
victim.
The British Embassy could not immediately confirm the incident.
Agha said police were investigating the shooting.
U.N. spokesman Manoel de Almeida e Silva confirmed that a foreign national
had been shot dead late Monday in Kabul, but said he was not U.N. personnel.
Since holding its first direct presidential elections in October, Afghanistan
has enjoyed a period of relative calm, marked by a decline in attacks by Taliban
and al-Qaida insurgents that have plagued restive areas of the south and east.
But in November, three foreign election workers were kidnapped in Kabul by a
Taliban splinter group. They were released unharmed a month later.
In December, a Turkish engineer working on a U.S.-sponsored road project was
kidnapped and killed by unidentified kidnappers in eastern Kunar
province.
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