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10 Aid Workers, Including 6 Americans, Killed in Afghanistan

07 August 2010 17:23 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. An international Christian charity says militants have killed 10 of its aid workers, including six Americans, in a remote area of northern Afghanistan, APA reports quoting voanews.com website.

The director of the International Assistance Mission charity, Dirk Frans, said the group’s medical team was last heard from Wednesday as the aid workers were returning to Kabul from an eye clinic in Nuristan.

Their bullet-riddled bodies were discovered Friday in Badakhshan, where the team was traveling through believing it to be safer.

The Taliban has claimed responsibility for killing the group, which also included a German, a Briton and two Afghans.

A Taliban spokesman accused the group of spreading Christianity, but Frans denied accusations that the group proselytized.

Two other Afghans traveling with the group escaped the ambush, including one man who said he survived by reciting passages from the Koran.

The local police chief said villagers had warned the group the forest was dangerous.