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German aid worker killed in Afghanistan

By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published March 9, 2007

KABUL, Afghanistan - Gunmen killed a German aid worker and robbed his three Afghan colleagues Thursday in northern Afghanistan, while a suicide bomber targeting a NATO convoy wounded five civilians in the country's south.

Separately, a NATO soldier died of wounds sustained during combat in southern Afghanistan, NATO said. The soldier's nationality was not released.

The four workers for the aid group German Agro Action were traveling in two vehicles when two gunmen stopped them outside the village of Mirza Wolang in Sari Pul province, said Sari Pul Deputy Gov. Qamarudin Shikeb.

"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," Shikeb said.

Fifty police were sent to the area and officers were searching every house, officials said.

German Agro Action carries out agricultural and other aid projects with local partners. Pott said it was the first time an expatriate worker has been killed abroad since the group was founded four decades ago.

A suicide bomber blew himself up near a NATO convoy west of the southern city of Kandahar. Three children were among the five civilians wounded.

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