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6 AID WORKERS KILLED IM PAKISTAN
Militants have attacked, on Wednesday 03/10/2010, the office of a Western Christian aid agency in NWFP, North West Pakistan killing 6 people, police said. The victims, including two women, were all Pakistani nationals working for World Vision in Mansehra district. The Christian group said it would suspend all operations in the country.
No group has admitted carrying out the attack but Islamist militants and specifically the local Taliban are suspected to carry out the attack.
World Vision said in a statement that it had not received any threatening letters ahead of the attack. They confirmed that seven more members of staff had been injured during the attack.
Gunmen burst into the building in the village of Oghi, some 80km (50 miles) north of Islamabad, early on Wednesday morning. “About 10 men came, they were all wearing masks. They kicked the doors down, took everyone out of their offices, put them in one place and started shooting,” an office administrator told the AFP news agency. He added that a bomb had been thrown as the gunmen left the building after the attack, leaving a large crater by the door. According to a local police officer quoted by the Associated Press, the “pressure-cooker” bomb was a detonated by remote control after the attackers had left the building.
In 02/2008, British aid agency Plan International suspended its operations there after three of its workers were killed in an attack on its office in Mansehra. Correspondents say Mansehra, in North West Frontier Province (NWFP), had served as a base for militants operating in Afghanistan and Kashmir.
Last month two simultaneous suicide attacks on police targets in Mansehra left one police officer dead and several other people injured. Militant groups and religious parties in Pakistan have often accused NGOs of spreading “vulgarity” in society. This is because NGOs mostly employ women workers and organize mixed social gatherings in line with their professed policy of gender equality, observers say.
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