JALALABAD, Dec 5 (NNN-XINHUA) – Five employees of an aid agency were shot dead, and one international staff member of the agency was wounded, when terrorists attacked their vehicle in Jalalabad, capital of Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar province, a provincial government spokesman said.
“Terrorists fired on a passing vehicle of an NGO at morning rush hour in Police District 1, of Jalalabad. All in the vehicle were affected in the incident but no passerby was hurt during the gun fire,” spokesman, Attahullah Khogyani told Xinhua.
Khogyani said, an investigation is underway and “details about the incident will be shared with media.”
Meanwhile, a security source told Xinhua that the targeted vehicle belongs to Peace Medical Service (PMS), an NGO carrying out agriculture and irrigation projects in Nangarhar, 120 km east of Kabul.
The source added that “the wounded NGO worker is the general director of the PMS office.”– NNN-XINHUA