Six Killed in Afghanistan Bomb Blast (30 aid workers this year)

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Six Killed in Afghanistan Bomb Blast
Two of the dead were U.N. workers registering voters. A medical aid group, citing worsening security, says it will withdraw in two weeks.

By Paul Watson, Times Staff Writer


NEW DELHI — A bomb blast Wednesday killed six people, including two United Nations workers registering Afghan voters, in an area of southeast Afghanistan where U.S.-led forces have frequently battled Taliban fighters and their allies.

The attack came on the day that the Nobel Prize-winning aid group, Doctors Without Borders, announced that it was pulling out of Afghanistan, citing factors such as deteriorating security and dissatisfaction with an investigation of the June slaying of five of its staffers in the northwest.

In Wednesday's violence, employees of the U.N. Assistance Mission in Afghanistan were at a mosque in Ghazni province registering voters for the country's Oct. 9 presidential election when a bomb exploded, killing six people, the U.S.-led military coalition said.

Two U.N. staff members who were injured in the attack were flown by U.N. helicopter to a U.S. military field hospital at Bagram air base, north of Kabul, the military said in a statement.

At least 30 Afghan and foreign aid workers have been killed in Afghanistan this year.<snip>



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