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Gunmen have shot dead a German aid worker in northern Afghanistan.Gunmen have shot dead a German aid worker in northern Afghanistan.
Officials in Sar-e Pol province north-west of Kabul said the man was travelling with three Afghan colleagues when they were attacked.Officials in Sar-e Pol province north-west of Kabul said the man was travelling with three Afghan colleagues when they were attacked.
The Afghans were unharmed but the German, who worked for the Bonn-based group Agro Action, was shot dead.The Afghans were unharmed but the German, who worked for the Bonn-based group Agro Action, was shot dead.
The Afghan Interior Ministry confirmed the death, as did Agro Action. Details of the attack are still unclear. No group has said it carried it out.The Afghan Interior Ministry confirmed the death, as did Agro Action. Details of the attack are still unclear. No group has said it carried it out.
'Two bullets'
A spokesman for the Interior Ministry in Kabul blamed the killing on bandits, rather than Taleban fighters who are active in the south and east.
The Afghans were released. They kept the German national and he was killed later Sayed Mohammad Iqbal Nib, Provincial governor
Sar-e Pol Deputy Governor Qamarudin Shikeb said the four aid workers were driving in two vehicles when two gunmen stopped them in Sayyad district outside the village of Mirza Wolang.
"They took them out of their cars, searched and robbed the Afghans and took the German a short distance away, killing him with two bullets," he told the Associated Press news agency.
Police were searching houses in the area, he said. The German's body was being taken to the provincial capital, Sar-e Pol.
In Bonn, a spokeswoman for Agro Action said the group was trying to get more details of the attack and declined to name the man.
The spokeswoman, Simone Pott, said it was the first time one of the organisation's expatriate workers had been killed abroad since it was founded in 1962.
Agro Action, which is called Deutsche Welthungerhilfe in German, helps local partners in agriculture, drinking water, reconstruction and youth projects.
Northern Afghanistan is relatively peaceful compared with the south and east. Two German journalists were in nearby Baghlan province last October.
Earlier this week, the Taleban said they were holding a man - identified as an Italian journalist - who they accuse of spying for British forces in the south.