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UK charity worker killed in Kabul | |
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A woman working for a UK-registered charity has been shot dead near Kabul University in the Afghan capital. | A woman working for a UK-registered charity has been shot dead near Kabul University in the Afghan capital. |
The woman, Gayle Williams, was a UK and South African national. She was killed by two men on a motorbike, witnesses told the BBC. | |
She was working for a Christian charity called Serve Afghanistan. | She was working for a Christian charity called Serve Afghanistan. |
The Taleban are reported to have said they carried out the attack because they said her organisation was preaching Christianity. | The Taleban are reported to have said they carried out the attack because they said her organisation was preaching Christianity. |
Further worries | |
Ms Williams was killed while walking to work, police said. | |
An eyewitness told the BBC that two men on a motorbike drew alongside her. One man then go off the motorbike and shot her at close range before jumping back on the bike and escaping. | |
Children on the street going to school also saw the incident. | |
"Some bullets hit her body and some hit her leg and when police got there she was dead," interior ministry spokesman Zemarai Bashary told the AFP news agency. | |
The BBC's Martin Patience in Kabul says this is not the first time that a foreigner has been killed in the Afghan capital by armed men. | The BBC's Martin Patience in Kabul says this is not the first time that a foreigner has been killed in the Afghan capital by armed men. |
But the incident will raise further concerns about the security situation in Afghanistan, our correspondent says. | But the incident will raise further concerns about the security situation in Afghanistan, our correspondent says. |
In the past week, there have been three assassinations in the southern city of Kandahar, all carried out by men on motorbikes. | In the past week, there have been three assassinations in the southern city of Kandahar, all carried out by men on motorbikes. |
Serve Afghanistan is a UK registered charity whose overseas staff are volunteers. It focuses on education and training for people with disabilities. | Serve Afghanistan is a UK registered charity whose overseas staff are volunteers. It focuses on education and training for people with disabilities. |