A German development aid worker has died from serious wounds suffered in an attack in northern Afghanistan, Berlin said Saturday, DPA reported.
Development Aid Minister Dirk Niebel expressed his condolences to the family of the man killed and those wounded in what he called a "cowardly attack which was aimed against the interests of the local population," a ministry spokesman said.
In the gun attack on the development worker's vehicle in Qhashqargan in northern Afghanistan, an Afghan co-worker was slightly wounded.
According to initial information, there were four people in the vehicle, including the German victim, an advisor for Germany's development aid bank KfW.
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