Initial Report: Aid Workers Killed in Pakistan

Published April 06, 2009 @ 04:23PM PT

It's been a brutal past few days - two aid workers killed in Afghanistan, two kidnapped in Darfur, and a new report that 2008 was the deadliest year on record in terms of aid worker fatalities.

Now there are initial reports that as many as four aid workers were just killed in Pakistan. According to the Kuwait News Agency:

"About four workers of an international Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) were killed by unknown suspects in a Pakistan's earthquake-hit northern district, said reports here on Monday.

The bullet-riddled dead-bodies of three female and a male workers of an international NGO were found on Monday by local authorities in Mansehra district of North-West Frontier Province (NWFP), local news channels reported.

It was immediately unclear who had killed the workers. However, local Geo news channel reported that the Taliban militants sprayed bullets at their official vehicle, killing all of them."

As always, our thoughts and prayers are with the families and colleagues of those killed.

[Updated Tuesday - Patronus Analytical confirms that three Pakistani aid workers and their driver were killed on Monday.]

[Victims of the October 2008 Pakistan earthquake - Photo from The Guardian]

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Michael has worked for NGOs in Afghanistan, across east and central Africa, and Iraq. Prior to going overseas, he worked on a project providing assistance to the United Nations on the application of International Humanitarian Law to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.