British aid worker Linda Norgrove gets postumous award

AID worker Linda Norgrove, who died last year after being kidnapped in Afghanistan, has received a posthumous Green Star award from the UN and Green Cross International.

The 36-year-old was killed by a grenade thrown by a US soldier in a failed rescue attempt.

Award organisers said: "Her death was a great tragedy not only for her family and friends but also for Afghanistan."

Grenade Mistake killed British Aid Worker

Linda Norgrove

The grenade that killed kidnapped British aid worker Linda Norgrove in Afghanistan was thrown by the most junior member of the US special forces team sent to rescue her, an inquest in UK has heard.

The operative - identified in court as TM5 - had "genuinely feared for the safety of the lives of his colleagues and himself" when he made the split-second decision to throw the grenade, the inquest's coroner found.

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