VOA标准英语10月-Three Shot Dead in Afghan Capital
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Afghan police say the two top officials of an international shipping1 company and one of their security guards were shot dead Saturday in front of their office in Kabul. VOA correspondent Steve Herman reports from the Afghan capital the killings3 are the latest in a series of attacks on foreign nationals there. |
| General Mirza Mohammad Yarmand (l), director of Interior Ministry4's Criminal Investigation5 Dept. at scene of DHL shooting in Kabul, Afghanistan, 25 Oct 2008 |
Afghan officials say the two Westerners were gunned down as they sat in a vehicle in front of the German-owned freight company DHL.
On the scene, General Mirza Mohammad Yarmand, the director of the Interior Ministry's criminal investigation department, told reporters the shots were fired from inside the DHL office.
General Yarmand says one of the guards at the DHL facility fired at the vehicle, killing2 the two foreign company officials and their Afghan bodyguard6. He says a motive7 has not been established.
The DHL office is located at a busy intersection8 across from the Iranian Embassy, in an upscale section of Kabul.
Police and diplomats9 say the two DHL officials - the country director and deputy director -- were from Britain and South Africa.
Officials of Saladin, a British-based private security company confirmed to VOA News that the Afghan guard who died was employed by them.
Authorities say two other Afghans, standing10 outside the DHL office, were wounded in the shooting.
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| Evidence, including bullet casings, recovered from inside DHL office following fatal shooting in Kabul, Afghanistan, 25 Oct 2008 |
Police detained 13 people, including DHL employees and guards. Interior Ministry officials say they are questioning them to determine whether the shooting stemmed from an "internal dispute" or outsiders were involved.
The latest violence comes less than a week after the shooting death of Gayle Williams, a British-South African national working for a Christian11 charity in Kabul. Taliban insurgents12 claimed they attacked the young woman because her British organization, SERVE Afghanistan, was spreading Christianity.
The charity denied it was proselytizing13 but decided14 to close its operation in the country following the killing.
Security has deteriorated15 in the capital and many parts of the country. Taliban insurgents and criminal gangs are blamed for a recent wave of killings and kidnappings targeting Afghans and foreigners.
Afghan authorities say several foreigners have been abducted16 in the past few days in the country. Among them are two Bangladeshi development workers in Ghazni province and two Turkish engineers hired to erect17 a communications tower near the Pakistani border in Khost province.
