Six French Aid Workers Dead in Afghan Attack

Suspected Taliban gunmen have killed six aid workers in Afghanistan and wounded a seventh.Police in Afghanistan's northern province of Faryab said Wednesday that the attackers targeted local workers for a French aid group known as ACTED. Officials said the gunmen stopped the workers' car and gunned them down. Of seven passengers in the car, only one survived.Taliban attacks in Afghanistan have increased as NATO coalition forces prepare to withdraw from the country next year.

© La Voix de l'Amérique - mercredi 27 novembre 2013