Friday, April 1, 2011

Foreign UN workers killed

Mazar-i-Sharif : Eight foreign employees of the United Nations were killed on Friday 1st April 2011 in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif after protesters over-ran their compound, police said, in what looks to be the deadliest ever assault on the UN in Afghanistan.

Two of the dead were beheaded by attackers who also burned parts of the compound and climbed up blast walls to topple a guard tower, said Lal Mohammad Ahmadzai, a police spokesman for the northern region.

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