Gunmen kill head of Japan aid agency in Afghanistan
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Gunmen killed six people, including the head of a Japanese aid agency, on Wednesday in an attack on their vehicle in Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan, officials said.
The ambush comes a week after a grenade attack on a United Nations vehicle in Kabul heightened fears for those doing humanitarian work amid one of the world’s longest-running conflicts.
Tetsu Nakamura, head of Peace Japan Medical Services, had been involved in rebuilding Afghan irrigation and agriculture and had recently been granted honorary Afghan citizenship for decades of humanitarian work in the east of the country.
Tetsu Nakamura, head of Peace Japan Medical Services
The gunmen fled the scene and police have launched a search operation to arrest them, Sohrab Qaderi, a member of the governing council in the province of Nangarhar told Reuters, adding he believed Nakamura had been targeted for his work.
Afghan security officials stand guard outside the office of the charity Peace and Medical Service (PMS) in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, 04 December 2010. Tetsu Nakamura, a physician and the head of the charity Peace and Medical Service (PMS), and five others including his body guard were killed on 04 December, when unknown gunmen opened fire on his vehicle in Jalalabad. Nakamura served as Executive Director of the charity in Afghanistan since 2008. The nonprofit assists in agriculture and irrigation projects in Nangarhar province. EPA-EFE/GHULAMULLAH HABIBI
